Automatic Updates Restart Nag Popup

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Larry LaMere

When I install updates and choose not to restart now a popup keeps coming up every 10
minutes. Is there a way to stop it permanently without disabling Automatic Updates?

Thanks
 
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:44:07 -0400, Larry LaMere <ljlamere@acd.net>
wrote:

>When I install updates and choose not to restart now a popup keeps coming up every 10
>minutes. Is there a way to stop it permanently without disabling Automatic Updates?
>
>Thanks

Restart it ?
 
Larry LaMere wrote:
> When I install updates and choose not to restart now a popup keeps
> coming up every 10 minutes. Is there a way to stop it permanently
> without disabling Automatic Updates?

I always find this question bizarre.

Why would you - knowing you plan on using your computer for an indefinite
amount of time - bother to choose to install updates knowing it might ask
you to reboot when it is done to accomplish the task you gave it?

The simplest and most logical solution to this is to - if you are going to
select to have the system notify you of updates and let yourself choose when
to install - choose an opportune time to install it. In logical terms -
don't tell it to install until you are ready for the consequences of doing
so - which you know may include a system restart.

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Larry LaMere wrote:

> When I install updates and choose not to restart now a popup keeps
> coming up every 10 minutes. Is there a way to stop it permanently
> without disabling Automatic Updates?
>
> Thanks

Hi Larry LaMere,

Didn't I answer you question on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:53:44 -0700.....yep
I did.
xn0f8nt183x9n13001@news.microsoft.com

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Group Policies can do this for but you are using Windows XP Home. If I
were you I would not install the updates until you are ready to reboot
the machine.

Here is a hint:

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU]

This will re-prompt you to restart every "n" minutes.

Name: RebootRelaunchTimeout
Type: DWORD
Value: Number of minutes ("n") in decimal.


Name: RebootRelaunchTimeoutEnabled
Type: DWORD
Value: 1

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William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
 
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