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Tensai replied

14 February 2008, 11:28
Hmmmm... registry hacks. Don't you love that MS "Do this and you may be f00ked, and don't expect any help from us" warning on Technet when looking at registry changes? There's nothing like good support, and that's nothing like etc etc.
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PAH replied

14 February 2008, 11:08
Instructions for Vista

Received this on a Vista Newsletter email I get:

How to prevent Windows Update from automatically rebooting your computer

Some of the updates downloaded by Windows Update require a reboot to finish installing, and Vista will pop up a dialog box telling you this and giving you the option to postpone the reboot for a specified amount of time. After several reminders, though, Windows gets impatient and announces that it's going to reboot in 5 minutes and forces a restart. If you're running Vista Ultimate or Business edition, there's a registry edit you can use to prevent that forced reboot (you'll still get the prompts):

Open your registry editor.

Navigate to the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Policies \ Microsoft \ Windows \ WindowsUpdate \ AU

In the right pane, right click in an empty area and select New, then DWORD value.

Name the new value NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers.

Double click the value and in the value data field, type 1.
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ladymuck replied

13 February 2008, 20:35
That's never happened to me. Mine are set to download but prompt to install. Of course, if you are behind a decent firewall and have AV installed do you really need to install any updates? My other half now only bothers with updates if something goes wrong and his XP build is remarkably stable for not having been forcibly updated every couple of weeks!

LM in "not directly answering anyone's questions mode" today
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KevinS replied

13 February 2008, 11:00
Originally posted by ASB View Post

This seems to have been changed so that instead of nagging you to reboot it now nags you to reboot, counts down a timer and then reboots anyway

This is not great for the VM's I was running, Visual Studio etc.

Anybody come across a way to stop this. I really need to close down my machine in a controlled manner.

I have my Windows update set to inform me when new updates are available, but not to download or install them automatically..
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TheFaQQer replied

13 February 2008, 10:57
Not tried it, but:

Start / Run / gpedit.msc / Local Computer Policy / Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Windows Components / Windows Update / Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations

HTH
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ASB started a topic Windows Update

13 February 2008, 10:50
Windows Update

This seems to have been changed so that instead of nagging you to reboot it now nags you to reboot, counts down a timer and then reboots anyway

This is not great for the VM's I was running, Visual Studio etc.

Anybody come across a way to stop this. I really need to close down my machine in a controlled manner.
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