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.

4 thoughts on “Freakin’ Restart! ARG!

  • 5/23/2007 at 10:37 am
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    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.

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  • 5/23/2007 at 11:01 am
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    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.

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  • 5/23/2007 at 11:01 am
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    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.

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  • 5/23/2007 at 1:56 pm
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    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.

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