Comments on: Temporarily Disable "Restart Now" Dialog from XP’s Automatic Updates

By: Felicia

Felicia — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:44:38 +0000

I always wondered if it was really truly necessary to always reboot after an update, it’s highly annoying.

By: Zvi

Zvi — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:11:30 +0000

I had 3 minutes to Google the solution for this problem before Windows would shut down and destroy a process that had been taking place for ~15 minutes, and this article made me prevent it! Thanks!

By: SS

SS — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:03:56 +0000

Shankuntala,

For people who play games in full screen mode your tip may not work since when this dialogue comes up now and then the game window gets minimized which is a pain ..

For all others it works just fine..

Cheers.

By: iChris.nl

iChris.nl — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:37:26 +0000

Shaakunthala (and others),

If you are working on something and running a lot of programs, it could be very handy to stop the pc from restarting within 4.5 minutes. I can’t stand the fact that Windows XP has a timer -_-

[code]net stop wuauserv[/code]
Thanks a lot!

By: Shaakunthala

Shaakunthala — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:31:11 +0000

Simply drag the restart dialog into a corner of the screen and so you cant see it. Do not hit the Restart Later button. And then it won’t bother.

Thanks.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:30:26 +0000

I am having a problem with win vista. On startup, it goes automaticaly to “Windows is configuring updates Step 3 of 3 0%” then “shutting down”, it does this on a constant loop never getting past 0% and I cannot get it to abort update or get far enough into windows to do anything. Please help.

By: Erm..

Erm.. — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:17:14 +0000

I use:
net stop “automatic updates
(note no end quote as it makes me feel like a rebel)
I do it as I usually have to many things running on my work PC at the time, but turn it off at night so it gets its reboot then.

However in recent months I’ve notice the service starts again all by itself. I’ve not even gone in to control panel, never mind the automatic update section. I’ve started leaving the dos window open so I can run it again with a couple of keystrokes (up arrow and return). It usually dies for good on the second attempt.

They know our tricks and making windows more painful for us again.

Now, if only I could stop AVG Free from showing popups…

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:47:52 +0000

Thank you so much for this. I’ve been on the verge of thrashing my computer.

By: Old Geek

Old Geek — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:39:16 +0000

Geek,

Better to (Disable) Automatic Update Service and put a sticky note on the system to manually check often for patches. Microsoft published a bad update in December which took millions of computers off the net before a “fix” could be published.

Not a good idea to trust anyone with your system including MS.

Also the Reboot after updating is highly important so that files, objects, services, etc., which are in use at the time of updating can be replaced.

Intervening in the scripted process causes problems.

Kindest Regards,

Old Geek

By: The Geek

The Geek — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:01:56 +0000

Gordy,

I’m not sure which links you are talking about… drop me an email and we can discuss.