Comments on: Temporarily Disable Windows Update’s Automatic Reboot in Win7 or Vista

By: B

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:19:03 +0000

THANK YOU god I hate how annoying Microsoft can be.

By: AT

AT — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:43:26 +0000

Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for, it sure help when you’re in a middle of something important and don’t want to restart.

By: -hgn-

-hgn- — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:28:21 +0000

Thanks for this hint, exactly what I was looking for! I wonder if Microsoft will ever add a “do not restart” option to the menu.

By: Swannou

Swannou — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:11:44 +0000

I Love you guy.

By: Mic

Mic — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:54:33 +0000

Thanks a bunch, that forced reboot crap is some of the worst coding from microsoft yet. Spending 20 hours converting some movie, then once its almost done you leave for a toilet break, when you get back the system has been rebooted..

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:32:23 +0000

Easier method: Drag the box to the bottom corner of your screen, and just dont click restart or postpone, then it won’t restart.

By: Luke

Luke — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:31:02 +0000

Victoria,

To re-enable this service type: net start “windows update”

By: James

James — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:36:00 +0000

I have gone through Microsoft and they have failed me to help fix my system. That damn Service Pack 1 screwed my system up; it does not come or even start up or do anything anymore. Been through the F8 function and all their recommendations to fix itself, but it just crashes once it starts.

Root of the problem: I was working and as usual that annoying pop up for update came up and I hit a button let it start installing. So, I allowed it to finish and it asked if i wanted to restart so the update will take effect. Naturally I say yes since it already did install it. Goes down and right as it comes back on and shows the files being updated…..BAM! it stops. It sits there doing nothing more than showing this: !! 0×01a001d !! 27891/87588 (registry\machines\COMPONENTS\DerivedData\….) or !! 0×01a001d !! 9427/87588 (registry\machines\COMPONENTS\DerivedData\….) can’t read the end of the line as it fades outside of the screen’s view.

Microsoft customer support and I spent 2 hours and everything they suggested did not work. Tired to run the system restore through the options found in F8 and it does nothing but crashes. I believe the term is “took it up the backside” is what I feel this damn update did to my system. Any help would greatly be appreciated. I am pissed that this crap got into my system…VISTA sucks, bring back XP

James

By: Cameron Klenk

Cameron Klenk — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:04:45 +0000

When I try to do that…it says windows update cannot be stopped. Any reason why it would do that?

By: Antu

Antu — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:58:18 +0000

It helps lot for me. I start to initialise the database from my terminal, it may take long hours, but windows ask to reboot. i can’t levae the system. because if it reboot means i lost 125 GB database initializaion. This will help lot.