Comments on: How to turn off automatic restart after updates on Vista

By: best registry cleaner

best registry cleaner — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:29:41 +0000

Wow I had no idea this option existed, thanks for that.

Previously I had been stopping the service manually, either using services.msc or the command line.

The worst thing is being bugged to restart and you are mid-sentence and accidentally tell Windows to restart immediately!

Chris

By: oscar

oscar — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:41:10 +0000

I do karaoke using the computer at least 3 times during the week, can you imagine if this would of happened during one of my shows. thank you for this info. Still, its always one thing after another, I think I’ll be switching to mac as soon as possible.

By: Stephen Reese

Stephen Reese — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:47:43 +0000

Thanks for the great tip.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:51:44 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. After not being able to use my home computer for a week because of it getting stuck in that updating 3 of 3 vortex, I now can use it.

By: Gingaskunk

Gingaskunk — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:21:43 +0000

The correct way to do this (Vista Only, but inlcudes Home) is:

go to Control Panel> Security> Windows Update> Change Settings (on the left), and choose Download updates and let me choose whether to install them (or whatever option you want to use).

This sounds like you are preventing the machine from donwloading updates, but it actually means that it will download them, but wait for your approval to install.

Another win for Microsoft’s “Menu Semantics Team” I sometime wonder if they used Google translator to arrive at their US version’s language….
Hope this helps.

By: Unrealevil

Unrealevil — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:46:59 +0000

Well, there is a way to set it with ‘policy registry keys’. As I said, I am not sure how to do that.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:44:52 +0000

Ah. I incorrectly assumed all versions had it. I’m very sorry for the misleading post; that must’ve been frustrating. Thanks for figuring out that it was the version–I’ll update the post.

By: Unrealevil

Unrealevil — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:58:50 +0000

I tried a bunch of things (MMC, Control Panel stuff, Run gpedit.msc). Vista did not seem to recognize it, and its service options (Group Policy Client) are all grayed out. I finally figured out the problem: You have Enterprise, I have Home Premium. Group Policy is not available for either Home editions. (http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/windows-vista-group-policy-editor-problem) I do not understand how to set it with policy registry keys…

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:40:38 +0000

Matt: What happens if you select “Run…” from the Windows menu and then type in “gpedit.msc” in the box. Does that work for you?

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:30:23 +0000

So the docx file is really nothing, I dont know where to go to get the file to make gpedit work, I have no idea what is going on, and cant stop my computer from automatically restarting
This is extreamly annoying, if anyone knows what to do for Vista SP1 please tell me. I am really frusterated with this.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:18:42 +0000

Thanks for this.
I was trying to formatt a new hard drive that i just bought overnight and i wake up to find my computer off. It has happened so many other times too when i have something running overnight. Its really annoying. I have SP1, and it is so hard to get this to work. I downloaded some docx file from the microsft site thanks to chris (hope it works as gpedit somehow), and now i have to download a file converter from microsoft so i can see the docx in office…it took so long already, but i just hope at the end that my hard drive is alright even though it was shut down in middle of the first format
annyoing!

By: shawn

shawn — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:12:48 +0000

many thanks for this.

By: Classified

Classified — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:03:18 +0000

I hate the reboot. I have video editing programs run over night and wake up to find hours with of render time lost from auto updates. Thanks I would have paid for this.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:58:35 +0000

Thanks, Aziel. I agree with your estimation of Microsoft engineers. If you were a software engineer, would you want to work at Google, Apple, Adobe or Microsoft? That’s the reason they’re trying to buy Yahoo; not for its technology, but for its engineers.

By: Aziel

Aziel — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:34:39 +0000

Thanks! This was also driving me nuts. The enabling of “Do not…/No…/Disable…” options is stupid to me also. Why not just write it “Auto-Restart for scheduled updates” so we can disable it?

The people who write these options lists are morons… highly paid morons.

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:34:28 +0000

Kudos, it works great. This was driving me mad.

By: chris

chris — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:12:40 +0000

Windows Vista SP1 changes the tools that administrators use to manage Group Policy. Administrators requested features in Group Policy that simplify Group Policy management. To do this, Windows Vista SP1 uninstalls the GPMC; GPEdit.msc edits local Group Policy by default. An enhanced version of GPMC will be included in Windows Server 2008 as well as the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows Vista SP1 shortly after Windows Server 2008 is released. The updated GPMC includes new features such as Group Policy preferences, Starter GPOs, comments, and search and filter capabilities.
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