reboot after update

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After a windows update you are told that you must reboot in order for the
updates to take effect. Fine. But the message is a real noodnik, constantly
popping up.. If you leave your computer for a while it'll reboot without
your permission causing a loss of information.

Is there any way of stopping the constant message popping up on your screen,
or rebooting against your will?

dennist685
 
PS. You can change your Windows Update Group Policy settings to change
the reboot/auto-nag behaviour.

John
 
Are you using Windows XP Professional or XP Home?

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
 
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