Teddy Rogers Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 Anyone know how to turn off or disable that most of annoying of annoying Windows traits of the OS automatically rebooting itself after its automatically updated itself?Ted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blah Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 good question...i was d/ling some stuff the other night (huge file) and it updated itself..i chose to restart later and the son of a bitch restarted when i was sleeping... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zer0buRn Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 Not sure about disabling the reboot itself. You can try to just have the automatic updates notify you of new updates rather than automatically downloading and installing them. That way you can pick when you want to download them on your own time.Right-click My Computer > Automatic Updates > Notify me but don't automatically download or install them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teddy Rogers Posted April 14, 2006 Author Share Posted April 14, 2006 Thing is even if you update manually the sucker still wants to automatically reboots itself (usually while your a sleep) - after you have pressed away a million times that you'll restart your computer later (when I want to). As Blah already pointed out its annoying especially if your trying to suck down some files and you wake up in the morning to find your comps been sat idle on the welcome screen for the past six or seven hours. Who needs Windows updates (bugs) anyway... Ted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxter Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 Windows XP Pro users can tell Windows never to restart the computer automatically. In order to do that follow these steps. In the Start Menu go to Run type gpedit.msc and press Enter Now a Group Policy editor will open. In this window navigate to: Computer Configuration -> Administrative Template -> Windows Components -> Windows Update Double click on No auto-restart for scheduled Automatic Updates installations In the settings window Choose Enabled and click OK Close Group Policy Editor Enjoy friends.. Bax! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teddy Rogers Posted April 14, 2006 Author Share Posted April 14, 2006 Just changed it, hopefully it will work. Thanks for the heads up Baxter... Ted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blah Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 thanx baxter..gonna try this.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigma Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 Hows about us poor people who can't afford pro, and have home? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxter Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 Hows about us poor people who can't afford pro, and have home? Damn, is there people out there that actually use HOME.. Here ya go.. Go to registry editor and navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \Software\Policies \Microsoft\Windows \WindowsUpdate\AU Change the "NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers" DWord value to the required number. 0 = False (Allow auto-reboot) 1 = True (Disallow auto-reboot) Save and restart Windows Operating system. Cheers Bax! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yamraaj Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 Thanks for the tip Baxter...I always wanted it but didn't searched for the answer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxter Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 Just changed it, hopefully it will work. Thanks for the heads up Baxter... Ted. Ted, just to close off on this one.. did it work for you? Cheers Bax! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hawk7 Posted April 25, 2006 Share Posted April 25, 2006 (edited) Damn BAXTER. I didn't know you were such a computer wiz... Edited April 25, 2006 by Hawk7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teddy Rogers Posted April 25, 2006 Author Share Posted April 25, 2006 Ted, just to close off on this one.. did it work for you?I think so. I reinstalled Winblows the other day and updated everything manually so I haven't had chance to let the OS auto-update itself yet. I'll keep you informed next time there is an update in progress...Ted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxter Posted April 25, 2006 Share Posted April 25, 2006 Damn BAXTER. I didn't know you were such a computer wiz... Hawk7 my man.. Bax is a man with many talents... and modest too!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest invalid Posted April 25, 2006 Share Posted April 25, 2006 When something has decided it wants to shutdown your machine another way you can stop it (there and then)Win+R -> shutdown -aThis pulls up the run dialog and tells windows to abort the current shutdown.This used to work for viruses that spammed shutdown requests and 1 abort would stop the lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teddy Rogers Posted May 13, 2006 Author Share Posted May 13, 2006 Well... it doesn't automatically shut down anymore which is a good thing. How do I go about stopping this most annoying of nags? Ted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALiEN Posted May 13, 2006 Share Posted May 13, 2006 Yeh I have exactly the same problem... When I update my system then I get always this message and if I choose 'restart later', this message happens every time in a short if time...It's a bit bored but I wanted to know too if anyone knows how to disable it...ALiEN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxter Posted May 13, 2006 Share Posted May 13, 2006 Give this a whirl.. To get rid of it: Start / Run / gpedit.msc / Local Computer Policy / Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Windows Components / Windows Update / Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations You can configure how often it will nag you (Say like re-configure it for 720 minutes, which means you'll be asked twice on a work day), or completely disable it." Last note: this fix does require a restart. Bax! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALiEN Posted May 13, 2006 Share Posted May 13, 2006 >Start / Run / gpedit.msc / Local Computer Policy / Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Windows Components / Windows Update / Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations I can't open the gpedit.msc... I did exactly what you explained but no luck. Any thing I have missed? ALiEN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teddy Rogers Posted May 13, 2006 Author Share Posted May 13, 2006 Thanks for the information Baxter! Alien, it opens just fine for me. Try this method instead:C:\WINDOWS\system32\mmc.exeNow go to File --> Open and search for:C:\WINDOWS\system32\gpedit.mscIt should open fine this way...Ted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALiEN Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 > C:\WINDOWS\system32\mmc.exeYeh this step works perfect but...> Now go to File --> Open and search for:> C:\WINDOWS\system32\gpedit.mscWhen I try this one I got a message saying the file doesn't exist!I tried to search manually for this file but without success... Probably I don't have it?! It's possible? weird thing...Thank you anyway Teddy & Bax.ALiEN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxter Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 Alien.. br0.. you sure you using XP-PRO?? You sound like you using.. wait for it... HOME Edition?????!!! If you had PRO.. my instructions + Teddy's would be a piece of cake for you?? What OS you got??? Bax! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALiEN Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 Nop Bax... I'm using WinXP Pro with SP2 for sure! I know what I have! I'm really being annoyed with this $h!t cause I never got any problem like this... It's ok... maybe I miss something... I will try to find gpedit.msc once again! Thanks again Bax... ALiEN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxter Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 So when you do this:Press STARTRUNType in "gpedit.msc"Then hit ENTERWhat exactly do you see?? What does your PC do.. or say.. any messages?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALiEN Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 Yeh I got an error message... See attachment: http://img119.imageshack.us/my.php?image=errormessage0gr.jpg I'm going to try to translate... here ya go: "The Windows can't locate 'gpedit.msc'. Be sure if you wrote the word correctly and, next, try again. To try to find any file, click the button 'start' and, next, click in 'browse'." Bax brO, sorry for lame translation but I can't translate well word by word... hope you can understand... ALiEN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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