Freakin’ Restart! ARG!
If you’re like me, you hate hate hate it when Windows automatically restarts your computer to install updates. Especially if you usually stay on top of updates and often have about 6 projects open on your computer that are ready and waiting to be destroyed by Windows XP.
Well, fear not good friends. I have researched the solution.
Step 1: go to Start -> Run
Step 2: type gpedit.msc
This will bring you to group policy editor.
Step 3: Go to: Administrative Template/Windows Component/Windows Update
See the “No auto-restart for scheduled Automatic Updates Installations“?
Step 4: Right click on that and go to properties.
Enable, and you’re done.
Badda-Bing. Take that Windows.
You could also just tell it to install stuff at 3 am or something…
In vista, you tell it to notify you and then it can install at shutdown, which is what i do.
Huh, I’ve only ever experienced Windows telling me it needs to reboot but giving me the option to wait. Granted, it still bugs me every 10 minutes with a pop-up window but it’s never restarted automatically.
I take a moar proactive method to that. I just try to crash my computer as often as possible so I don’t have to worry about it closing to reset itself.
I was actually woken up today by that happening. I was really tired the night before, so I let the Ben Folds Five album I had just bought play somewhat-loudly as I laid on my bed. I fell asleep pretty quickly, and was awoken at 3 AM by the Windows restart sound. I was too asleep to do much about it, but when I got back, the speakers were unplugged.