Comments on: Prevent Windows Update from Forcibly Rebooting Your Computer

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:15:47 +0000

This auto restart “feature” of windoze is SO unbelievably bad, that it is, even on its own, reason enough to never use windoze. Having used many versions of Mac OS, Linux and windoze, the huge, overriding thing I notice the most about using windoze, is that WINDOWS is in control, you are merely a passenger being told to do things the microsoft way, whereas proper OSes are designed to do things the way USERS want to do them.

I mean, an OS that just goes ahead and RESTARTS all by itself unless you tell it not to? Come on, is this windoze beta 0.9? Surely such a major bug as this should get removed before microsoft release a full version of windoze. Maybe windoze 7 is that version 1.0 we’ve been waiting for? Would it be so hard just to switch the options so that the PC does NOT restart unless you tell it to, as opposed to auto-restarting unless you tell it NOT to?

By: TonyC

TonyC — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:13:54 +0000

Here is my problem, I get Vista Premium updates, they cause problems, I restore to an earlier time, set my updates to not update, but as I restore, there is a notice that “New Updates Available”. I am assuming that these were there from previous download before my new configuration.

So, this new update will reinstall itself when I shut down…right? Is this a never ending loop of me restoring and updates being installed as I shut down?

Toothless gave seven steps to what appears to be a way to stop this loop, if so, does anyone else concur with him?

Have you got a suggestion on stopping updates from self installing on shutdown?

By: Rei

Rei — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:47:09 +0000

I wish my Windows Vista would just stop updating, period.

After every fourth or fifth update, I have to reload my OS!

By: Toothless

Toothless — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:57:24 +0000

Fix Infinate loop for Vista update install…

1. Insert your Vista Media into your dirve and boot from it.
2. Select “Repair your Computer” from the list.
3. Select “Command Prompt” from the recovery choices.
4. At the command prompt type C:
5. Type cd Windows\WinSxS
6. Type del pending.xml
7. Exit and reboot

Works w/o restore or reg fixes… simple quick, easy…. what else is there?

By: Thor

Thor — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:55:34 +0000

If you have home versions of Windows XP, Vista, or 7, you can use Shutdown Guard:
http://code.google.com/p/shutdownguard/

By: Mich

Mich — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:34:50 +0000

Sorry both links to this file Do Not work…

Not working..
The link to the Auto Reboot Remover has changed however. You can find it here:

http://www.intelliadmin.com/downloadtrial.htm

By: Vincent

Vincent — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:32:00 +0000

Ryan B,

Thanks for your advice. It seemed a bit easier then the method in the article; mostly because I was nervous to add a new entry to the registry. Hope it works though, I lost a lot of work to Window’s draconian policies. Very very frustrating. Am I not the owner of this computer? Why in the **** is it telling me to work around ITS schedule?

Anyway, thanks for the help.

Vinny

By: GolDreadLocks

GolDreadLocks — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:22:06 +0000

I have been trying for 3 weeks to find out how to fix my windows vista updates.I have done all the microsoft steps, but it still won’t update. Everything was fine until last June 24. I can’t even use system restore as the dates won’t go back before June 24. Does anyone know how to help?I would really appreciate it. I need to update the securities etc.Thanks in advance,…

By: LukeR

LukeR — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:23:44 +0000

i just lost a load of unsaved work on Word when windows restarted without even telling me. it overrided the ‘do you want to save your changes to…’ and closed it anyway. i’m more determined that ever to beat it now.

By: tokyogodfather

tokyogodfather — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:48:20 +0000

I ran the Auto Reboot Remover but have no idea if it worked. It just kept telling me to make sure I am the admin of my computer. But I AM logged in as admin..