Disable automatic restart updates windows xp

Though their software are widely useful, they should at least have some respect of customer, not undestimating them. Thats why anti-microsoft slogans are spreading from such frustrations. Now I can quit raging at my computer and safely go to lunch. Arby 11 years ago. Jesus C 11 years ago.

Cancel Submit. In reply to myrthman98's post on December 30, They were virtually useless, I am glad they took them down. What is your system make and model? If there is a problem booting, XP is configured to automatically try to boot again and you can get stuck in a loop of just being unable to get past the boot options screen or none of the boot options you choose will work. Sometimes when XP has a problem starting or crashes and tries to start again, it will give you a "short" menu of boot options and none of them will seem to be the right ones to get your system going again.

You've tried them all! The options resemble the XP Advanced Boot Options menu, but the one option you need Disable automatic restart on system failure is not offered because XP has gone too far along in the boot process and offers you a limited number of boot options. I want updates to automatically install, but not reboot until I choose to do so. Any suggestions? I've had this problem several times when I've left a job running overnight, or just when I was looking at a bunch of documents, websites etc.

Came back to an empty desktop, thanks Microsoft. What really annoys me though is that for years, one of the first things I do in Windows when installing is to set windows update to download updates but let me choose when to install, and yet regularly they seem to include an update which changes your settings back to install and reboot automatically!

Beware if you install Office and download the first update for that. That one seems to reset your automatic updates settings. There have certainly been others too. It's getting to the point that I think I'm going to have to manually check Windows Update settings after every windows update I manually approve!

This "feature", along with my other favourite Windows feature where pop-ups steal focus when you are typing away, and you dismiss them with a keystroke without even seeing what it is you agreed to or cancelled, drives me crazy! I so hate this "feature" that I first saw on Windows 7. I saw it when I came into work in the morning and clicked "postpone" because I had a lot of things open I needed to work on.

While I was eating my lunch, I watched Windows just begin to close everything!! Most of it I hit cancel and it just forced it closed, destroying all my unsaved work! There was no way to even stop the shutdown process once it started. If it keeps nagging me, I will eventually run my system updates and reboot usually at the end of the week, like I do on my Mac , but forcing a reboot and killing all of a users data!

This definitely shouldn't be enabled by default. Now I'm behind a few hours at work. Thanks for the post. I've disabled it, but noticed people mentioned in the comments this didn't work. Let's give this a shot and see what happens. Totally agree I'm not sure about the guys at Microsoft but a server "automatic" restarting without supervision by an administrator is one of the most senseless and dangerous things in a professional, productive server environment.

Really, on a mission critical system you don't want the system to decide for itself to perform a reboot. What if the system in question is a heart-monitor in an hospital IC station? The default setting for any serious sysadm should be: no unsupervised reboots.

A serious sysadm plans maintenance windows every month, week, or for my part day when the system is safely on the ground and a reboot is allowed. Just disable automatic updates. Why should microsoft decide when you apply updates in the first place. Disable Auto Update? Most people will quickly forget that they did so and soon open themselves to all the nastiness the electronic frontier has to offer.

Do not disable AU. The jerks of the world make new malware and find new exploits every day, the updates try to protect you from this. This does not specify which versions of Windows this applies to.

It did not work for me on Windows 7. Will this disable the prompts entirely or only to the value I set in the second setting? If I want to disable them entirely what should the settings be? Ron The fact that the post has a date of July should have been a pretty good indicator for you that it wasn't written with Windows 7 in mind. So am I right in understanding that there is no way to manage this popup permanently in XP? If that's the case, then I agree with Dave that it would be useful to have stated that in the article.

Why should I have to trawl through the comments to work that out, Ryan? I see there are various options for handling it at the time it happens, but I would like to sort out my parent's PC such that it pops up only every 4 hrs, and will never auto reboot without the user's OK. Isn't that possible? It's not clear from the comments. And it that's not possible then I'm dumbfounded. The second way you can try is using Registry Editor to stop Windows 8. Follow the steps below to do this job.

Step 4: Right-click Windows from the left panel, select New and then click Key to create a new key. Name the new key WindowsUpdate. Name this new key AU. Once you complete the steps above, you can prevent Windows Update from automatically restarting your PC. If you want to disable automatic reboots after installing updates in Windows 10, follow the steps below.