Get Rid Of Windows Update “Restart” Option

By VJ | Jul 19, 2007

Everybody of us these days enjoy the automatic updates by Microsoft. That is one of the benefit of using Genuine copy of Windows. Now you do get the updates, keeping your system up-to date, and provides you with every bug fixes.
When you download these updates, sometimes it asks you for a reboot. Its sometimes irritating, specially when you are doing a important work. How can you avoid this option. Well Microsoft allows you edit these settings, but its not so easy that a basic user can find it. So here is that way, through which you can stop the automatic restart option.

  1. Go to Start –> Run, type “gpedit.msc”.
  2. Go to Computer Configuration –> Administrative Templates –> Windows Components –> Windows Update.
  3. Look for option “No Auto Restart For Scheduled Automatic Update installation” and Enable that option.
  4. Restart Option

  5. This will make sure that your computer is not reboot automatically, instead it will just notify you for a reboot. It will be users choice as to when to reboot your computer
  6. If in case you want it to notify you again and again, after a specific interval of time, then look for option “Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations”. Enable that option and specify the time.

Everything above is all easy, its just editing some policies which you can perform easily.

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5 Comments so far
  1. Sunil Parmar July 19, 2007 5:09 am

    Hi there,
    It’s amazing tip and the restarts really bother sometimes when you are working seriously on your PC.
    Till now i only had idea about using ‘msconfig’ in order to make the PC to start faster.

    Nice blog!!!! :)

  2. Nirmal July 19, 2007 10:48 am

    Cool tip. My system at office will always give warning before restart and we cant control it. Its controlled through network.

  3. Haris July 19, 2007 1:36 pm

    Hey, thanks for sharing this. I only knew how to disable it completely.

  4. kanak August 1, 2007 3:40 pm

    power of sharing knowledge. Today when this windows reboot popup was bugging me , i remembered that i saw this post on your blog. Finally with the help of this , i got rid of it … THanks for sharing and keep up the good work :-D

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