Stopping Windows Update From Rebooting Automatically

Posting this, since it took me a long time to find this site today when I wanted to stop my home computer from annoying me with the reboot dialogs every couple of minutes.If you never reboot your computer, it might be a good idea to not implement this solution, since you might forget to ever reboot, and therefore not get the changes that were updated.
If you can remember to reboot once you are done with whatever you are doing, you can go to the Start->Run dialog, and type, "net stop wuauserv", and that will make the dialogs go away until the next reboot.
Posted by Jon Daley on February 18, 2006, 1:09 pm | Read 8541 times
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A better solution is:
(this is from Microsoft, under the OEM System Builder stuff, so "approved")
Run gpedit.msc.
expand Computer Configuration, expand Administrative Templates,
expand Windows Components, and then click Windows Update.
In the details pane, click No auto-restart for scheduled Automatic Update installation options, and enable it.
Posted by jondaley on February 22, 2006, 7:09 pm
My XP Home computer is currently annoying me as I am trying to do my work and XP Home doesn't have the group policy editor. This site had the answer:
Save the following lines to file named test.reg, and double-click it.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftWindowsWindowsUpdateAU]
"RebootRelaunchTimeoutEnabled"=dword:00000000
"NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers"=dword:00000001
Posted by jondaley on April 17, 2006, 9:04 pm
This stopped working for me on XP Home.
So, I added:
RebootRelaunchTimeout = 180
And I will see how it goes...
Posted by jondaley on December 17, 2006, 9:22 pm
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