disable that boot popup

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I started converting some avi's to divx today. To save some time, I allowed automatic updates to download. For the past two hours that blasted 'MUST restart to finish installation' has popped up in front of me.

How do I disable that ? It doesn't have the eXit button enabled.
And like many other times, I'm sure I'll be mousing some button on some web page, this boot now button is going to jam itself between my mouse pointer and the button I'm aiming at, and lose all the conversion in the current project.
 
Some Microsoft Windows Update items do require the PC to restart to
finish its installation. As soon as your done converting a video
file, just restart the PC...
 
Some Microsoft Windows Update items do require the PC to restart to
finish its installation. As soon as your done converting a video
file, just restart the PC...
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You aren't following WHY I want this popup disabled.
I'm converting stuff, or I'm nowhere near ready to reboot regardless of what I'm doing.

BUT the fact is I'm busy with something else that CAN'T be interrupted with a reboot.
Every few minutes this blasted popup is going to popup and ask me the same stupid question over and over again until
1. I allow it to reboot
2. a power failure reboots me.
3. the popup insinuates itself between my mouse pointer at the very moment that I'm trying to tell another open window [that won't reboot me]what to do, and intercept the button press meant for the other program. It's happened before.

For the moment I've taken and turned off the mouse jump to focus button. And last time the update popup appeared, I jammed it off to the side where my mouse seldom goes.

Not a perfect solution, but may work.
 
I started converting some avi's to divx today. To save some time, I allowed
automatic updates to download. For the past two hours that blasted 'MUST
restart to finish installation' has popped up in front of me.

How do I disable that ? It doesn't have the eXit button enabled.
And like many other times, I'm sure I'll be mousing some button on some web
page, this boot now button is going to jam itself between my mouse pointer
and the button I'm aiming at, and lose all the conversion in the current
project.
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You're stuck with what you have for the moment. For the future: Try
different settings in Automatic Updates. Let it check for updates and
download them. But change "install" so that only occurs when you say
okay - AFTER you're work and conversions are done.
 
You're stuck with what you have for the moment. For the future: Try
different settings in Automatic Updates. Let it check for updates and
download them. But change "install" so that only occurs when you say
okay - AFTER you're work and conversions are done.
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Thing is I'm too lazy for the 2 step process.

I've always figured a computer should have all the programming switches possible, available. IOW you can have more options with this than yes or no, but not all of them are available.
Trouble is to have all those switches available would require a monitor the size of the Empire state Building.
 
Thing is I'm too lazy for the 2 step process.

I've always figured a computer should have all the programming switches
possible, available. IOW you can have more options with this than yes or no,
but not all of them are available.
Trouble is to have all those switches available would require a monitor the
size of the Empire state Building.
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I'm lazy too. I had it setup for the 2 step and went back to fully
automatic. Maybe another approach... Before starting a big project,
manually check windows update and install whatever. Then start work? I
know, I know. Still 2 steps but at least no nags. A "remind me tomorrow"
option would definitely be welcome in the current prompt screen.
 
I'm lazy too. I had it setup for the 2 step and went back to fully
automatic. Maybe another approach... Before starting a big project,
manually check windows update and install whatever. Then start work? I
know, I know. Still 2 steps but at least no nags. A "remind me tomorrow"
option would definitely be welcome in the current prompt screen.
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Video editing isn't a big project. But sometimes it is. ie: I quit 1 thatran all night about 10 minutes ago. it was 64% done.
this is with a 3.2 ghz P4 hyper threading dual processor and 4 gigs ram.

Installing updates that require reboots, need no nag at all. There may besome people that never reboot the machine. A daily nag would work for them. For those that turn it off every night, no nag at all would be sufficient. Not every 3 minutes.
IOW: If it ain't broken, don't fix it. Way I see it if you can get the update, you aren't broken.
 
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