Comments on: How to Disable Automatic Restart after Windows Update

By: guitar

guitar — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:12:40 +0000

nice tutorial thanks..

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:54:47 +0000

Me, too, that folder structure is different in my XP Home; could not find the folder of which he spoke.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:34:53 +0000

Thank you so much…this may have saved my computer from being thrown out of the window.

By: jerry

jerry — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:34:37 +0000

I have the same problem, no WindowsUpdate branch. The reply you got was to add a New Key and put in the branch. Did that work for you??

By: Farmdogg

Farmdogg — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:11:45 +0000

Would be nice to know where to find this property of which you speak…

By: adm_snackbar

adm_snackbar — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:35:17 +0000

BONUS TIP: While you guys are at it, be sure to also set the “Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations” property to 1440 minutes (the maximum allowed), otherwise the prompt to restart box pops up every 10 minutes by default. This will give you an entire 24-hour period of peace without being prompted again.

By: SONA

SONA — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:00:01 +0000

Thank U very much for this tutorial *thumbs up*

By: RizThon

RizThon — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:37:10 +0000

It says “Note: This policy applies only when Automatic Updates is configured to perform scheduled installations of updates. If the “Configure Automatic Updates” policy is disabled, this policy has no effect.”.
Do I really need to also enable “Configure Automatic Updates”?

By: adam

adam — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:12:01 +0000

*KM*

Try creating the directories yourself. In the right-click menus, it’s called New Key, as opposed to New Folder.

Hope that helps..

By: KM

KM — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:23:33 +0000

I have XP Home and, for some reason, I can’t find the “WindowsUpdate” branch under the key you suggested–the only place I found it (using Find) was under a long number under HKEY_USERS and it has nothing about AU…Any other possible keys out there?