Thursday, March 11, 2010

Stop restart popup after automatic updates in Windows XP

Absolutely annoying feature of windows is a popup that keeps asking you to restart the system after a Windows update. Disable that!

# Disable current popup from the command prompt

net stop "automatic updates"

# Disable future auto restarting of system. 
# I'm using Windows XP Home so can't access gpedit.msc. 
# Need to use a registry script instead --> stop_update_restart.reg
# P.S. note the first line.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU]
"RebootRelaunchTimeoutEnabled"=dword:00000000
"NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers"=dword:00000001

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