Comments on: How to Disable Automatic Restart after Windows Update

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?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:16:33 +0000

many many thanks. Did this before, but clicked disable instead of enable. The old double negative catch.

Hopefully this will be the last time :)

By: Disable Automatic Restart after Windows XP Update - Web Development Blog

Disable Automatic Restart after Windows XP Update - Web Development Blog — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:29:52 +0000

[...] Well, I lost this battle to my computer one too many times and decided to seek out a solution. And fortunately, preventing the automatic restart is very simple and only requires one small change to the system registry. For the full tutorial that helped me disable auto-restart, see "How To Disable Automatic Restart after Windows Update" over at Code Retard. [...]

By: Greg Speed

Greg Speed — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:52:56 +0000

How many times have we lost work through the night because of this awful feature. Thanks for the info!
Greg

By: bigkid

bigkid — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:48:31 +0000

Best piece of advice ever!