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Disable Restart Prompt After Installing Windows Updates

Published in Tips & Tutorials - Posted By: Dorothy 

7

Jul

Do you like the annoying message that keeps asking you to restart your computer after installing windows updates every 10 minutes?

If you choose "Restart Later", this question will appear again every 10 minutes.

How to get rid of this message ? (this tutorial doesn't work on Windows XP Home Edition).

Click Start > Run to open the Run window.
In the Run window type gpedit.msc to open the Group Policy.
On the left, Click Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update.

On the right, double click on "Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations".
Now change the amount of time windows will wait to re-prompt you for restarting (the default value is 10 minutes), you can enter the value that you prefer (in minutes).

Click Ok and close the Group Policy



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Clive Says, in 7-17-2007 at 09:34:27 from 80.77.201.13    

I tried to carry out this procedure but got
sidetracked as there is no setting. I have
only three settings:
1. Remove access to use all windows update features
2. Do not display Install Updates and Shut down option in shut down windows dialog box
3. Do not adjust default option to install updates and shut down in shut down windows dialog box

That's it. Can you help?

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admin Says, in 7-17-2007 at 10:15:00 from 88.42.30.14    

Hi Clive
Have you Windows XP Home Edition ?

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Clive Says, in 7-17-2007 at 11:14:29 from 80.77.201.13    

Sorry spoke to early, I must have been looking in
the wrong area. I have now made use of this great
tip…thanks, sorry to have been to quick off the
mark.

Clive

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Nathan Says, in 7-18-2007 at 10:17:04 from 216.153.181.242    

Awesome tip…thanks!

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Dude Says, in 7-27-2007 at 20:25:04 from 76.22.84.127    

Or move it to the far bottom right of your screen until there's just a nubbin showing and leave it there. If you don't respond to the prompt it will sit there indefinitely. Should work for Home as well.

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Shalmanese Says, in 9-5-2007 at 09:14:15 from 124.170.53.8    

Take a look in the "Explain" tab, the disabled setting does NOT disable the restart prompt, instead, it sets it back to the default 10 minutes. There is *NO* way to turn off the restart prompt. The longest you can set it to is 24 hours.

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Erica Says, in 9-5-2007 at 09:33:16 from 63.254.168.25    

THANK YOU!

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stx Says, in 9-5-2007 at 10:00:35 from 212.27.185.253    

I usually just grab the window and pull it into the lower right corner of the screen. It stops reappearing that way.

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Tim Says, in 9-5-2007 at 10:25:45 from 192.76.84.196    

start menu>run>%windir%\system32\sc.exe stop wuauserv

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Jason Says, in 9-5-2007 at 10:49:28 from 64.29.15.5    

Another way to do it is to just type the following from a command (DOS) prompt:

net stop wuauserv

This will stop the service that is tracking that a reboot is needed. The service will stay stopped until a.) you reboot the machine, b.) you restart the service by typing "start" instead of "stop" in the command line mentioned above, or c.) your domain admin's global policy forces it to restart.

Of course, item "c" is only valid on machines that are in a domain in which a domain administrator has set a global policy. It is possible that there is a "d" to that list that wakes up the service after 24 hours. However, there is a way to stop even that so that you can ignore it indefinetly, but it isn't wise to do it and I'm not going to go into that here. Simply put, not restarting for more than 24 hours after applying a critical patch is, in most cases, taking unnecessary risks and just silly. So what Shalmanese said about it not being possible to set it for more than 24 hours could be ammended to say "nor should it let you go longer than that."

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Fiq Says, in 9-5-2007 at 11:02:22 from 193.119.140.210    

Alternatively, just temporarily shut down the service:
net stop "Automatic Updates"
from the command line

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steve Says, in 9-6-2007 at 04:55:27 from 62.200.22.2    

Following is copied shamelessly from CodingHorror blog comments -

For the guy with Windows XP Home (or guy being unfairly denied access to gpedit.msc in corporate env)…

1. Copy the text below into Notepad. Save it with a .reg extension. Open and confirm that you want to copy the data into your registry.

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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Lars Lüger Says, in 9-18-2007 at 05:34:54 from 84.48.60.104    

Thank You!!!

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ray blackburn Says, in 9-22-2007 at 12:49:41 from 67.142.130.15    

awesome tip, those boxes drive me nuts, thanks

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Clint7 Says, in 1-16-2008 at 21:51:40 from 67.140.176.129    

I get to where it says reprompt for restart and have to stop because I do not have that option that I can see. I have Windows Pro

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Dante Says, in 1-17-2008 at 23:12:23 from 76.104.209.17    

to Clint7 - by default this policy is not configured, so you have to click "Enabled" first, in order to change the setting. Maximum is 1440, which equals 24 hours. Then click "ok" and it applies after your next restart.

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