Restarts

[Travis King]

In Windows Vista, are there supposed to be much less restarts required than
in previous versions of Windows? I get sick of having to restart my
computer everytime there is a Windows security update. (Almost daily.)
Even more annoying, XP keeps bugging you every five minutes to restart your
computer if you don't. Granted, it only takes a minute or two at the most
to restart my computer, but it is an interruption.

Thanks.

 

[Slugsie]

I don't know about Vistas restart tendancy, however if your getting almost
daily security updates then something is very wrong. MS only normally issue
updates once a month (second Tuesday).

There is a group policy setting that is supposed to turn off the 'Restart
Windows' annoyance, but it never seems to work right for me. However,
dropping to a command prompt and running "net stop wuauserv" (without the
quotes) will silence it until after your next reboot.

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

You can postpone restarts in Windows Vista for updates. But as Slugsie said,
they are delivered once a month every second Tuesday, just allocating
sometime to do that would not be so bad.
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[Zack Whittaker \(R2 Mentor\)]

You see, with my updates... the only ones I get are Windows Defender ones.
Now, they don't cause the system to restart... but would be good if Windows
Update could actually update the definition files instead of looping round
and round and round all the time! The only way to get out of the loop is to
untick the box and make sure that "Don't show this update again" is ticked!!

Shocking stuff...

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[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

The only time I remember it doing that was in beta 1 when it was named
Microsoft AntiSpyware.
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[Travis King]

I'm getting yet another update today. The yellow shield is in the taskbar
again.

 

[Travis King]

It was only there for a second, then it went away again.

 

[Zack Whittaker \(R2 Mentor\)]

I got the same... this happens on Vista and XP SP2. However Wendy did say
that this would be fixed. That's all I can really say about it... well,
that's all she could find out about it.

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