turn off "Restart now, restart later"

[jack]

Morning all....I am doing a large project on my computer and just
received updates this a.m. from WIN.


Every couple minutes I lose my effectiveness when working on this
project, because of the popup....

anyway of turning it off or changing the time it tells you??

I KNOW !!!! I have to turn my computer off at SOME point, I just need
to tell it that LOL

thx!

 

[Jason H]

Here's an idea - go ahead and restart. Certainly you can spare the minute or
two that takes.

 

[John John]

Morning all....I am doing a large project on my computer and just
received updates this a.m. from WIN.


Every couple minutes I lose my effectiveness when working on this
project, because of the popup....

anyway of turning it off or changing the time it tells you??

I KNOW !!!! I have to turn my computer off at SOME point, I just need to
tell it that LOL

At a command prompt issue: net stop wuauserv

That will stop the nagging for the current session.

You can change your Windows Update Group Policy settings to change
the reboot/auto-nag behaviour.

For Windows XP Professional:

Click Start | Run | type gpedit.msc and click OK or press enter.

Look in:

Local Computer Policy | Computer Configuration | Administrative
Templates | Windows Components | Windows Update

For Windows XP Home you will have to do a manual registry edit at:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU

Edit Reg_DWORD entry name: NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers

Range = 0|1;

1 = Logged-on user gets to choose whether or not to restart his or her
computer.

0 = Automatic Updates notifies user that the computer will restart in 5
minutes.

Or change the value at: RebootRelaunchTimeout

See:
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Windo...0ffd-400c-b722-aeafdb68ceb31033.mspx?mfr=true

John

 

[jack]

LOL novel idea! Yes I finally did that, but was thinking how
intelligent this group is, and maybe there was a workaround to save a
few minutes!\

 

[jack]

thanks John, will try......I have xphome tho.

 

[WTC]

If you have Windows XP Pro then use the Group Policy Object editor. To start
the GPO editor, type the following in the Run dialog box:

gpedit.msc

Navigate to:

Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components >
Windows Update. Double-click "No auto-restart for scheduled Automatic
Updates installations" to select Configured.

Note: A restart /may/ be required for the changes to take affect.

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If you have Windows XP Home then you will need to edit the Registry. Edit
the Registry at the following location:

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU]

Name: NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1

Note: A restart /may/ be required for the changes to take affect.

 

[jack]

thanks for the instrux on xphome! Thank you!

 

[WTC]

thanks for the instrux on xphome! Thank you!

You're welcome.