Comments on: Stop XP Automatic Reboot After Windows Updates

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:57:26 +0000

thanks for the additions above, and I almost implemented one just now.

However, after thinking about it, I believe that if MS thinks a reboot is required, then I want the nag screen to remain.

By eliminating the nag screen, I would be under the mistaken impression that my Windows is actually updated, but he would not be until that reboot takes place.

However I’d love to see a hack making nag screen came up only once an hour, or even longer, because it’s far too frequent at the moment. I’d write more but I have to go reboot.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:10:43 +0000

Make a shortcut on your desktop, so you can instantly kill whenever the update-nag pops up. The above mentioned solution is more elegant, but this works good enough for me:
%windir%\system32\cmd.exe /c “net stop wuauserv”

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:51:38 +0000

Hi there,

This also does the trick (found on http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000294.html)

start/run cmd
net stop wuauserv

The autoupdate gets stopped including their nag. Restarts at next reboot.

On a different note: I’ve read stories about a lot of people who are working on important work, and don’t seem to save before going off to bed. At the risk of sounding like a pricky, my two cents worth. Of course I regularly save. And on an important doc. also reg. as a filename_version_BUx.doc, just in case a word doc, excel or ppt gets corrupted (not often, but it DOES happen). If working with a lot of related webpages (I use Firefox) I save the lot as a session with the plugin ’session manager’ so I can always recreate the websites. A really important document will get backed-up to a mobile USB-disk before I sign off, and I’ll probably close it, just to be sure it doesn’t get edited by accident in the meantime. Leaving a book on your keyboard will do that. ;-). If not closing, at least windows+L to lock everything, so my books or cats can’t get creative.

I’m a little paranoia about losing work (even once went through my swap-file to find some notes) often working against deadlines.

Cheers, Bob

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:39:05 +0000

Couldn’t agree more! Yesterday spend nearly four hours updating a forthcoming Seminar Presentation, was going “finish it off” this morning, only to wake up to see my computer had been “aurtomatically ” restarted! No words can describe the amount of swearing I did.

My last thought before going to bed last night exhausted was “wonder if I should save everything” but then thought, Ill be up early, no one will touch it, and it will save me having to open all the webpages , research docs and everything else I had open to complete my research. Should have at least saved the word doc! What a nightmare.Starting again now,another 4 hours ahead of me!!