You might have experienced the annoying dialog box if you ever updated your computer. This is the message that appears if you did:
Updating your computer is almost complete. You must restart your computer for the updates to take effect. Do you want to restart your computer now?
This message pop ups at the end and immediatly gets the focus, even if you are in a game or watching a fullscreen movie. You have the option to restart now or later. The first would result in an immediate reboot while the second would nag you again in 10 minutes. This will be annoying if you can´t reboot your computer at that time.
The dialog box can be configured in the following police:
Start / Run / gpedit.msc / Local Computer Policy / Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Windows Components / Windows Update / Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations
You can disable this box at all or define a time period for the reboot later option. You could select every four hours for example or even more if you like. I decided to remove this box completly.
You could also set the following registry key to 1 to recieve the same effect:
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WindowsUpdate\AU\NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers
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Thanks for the tip. I actually didn’t realize you could set this up manually in the Policy Manager. I always figured you just have to change that one obscure key in the registry. Cool!
I think that nagging dialog is one of the most annoying windows “features” ever. I would say it is second only to that MS Office Clippy abomination :P
Thanx 4 this!
And I can see a lot of other cool settings.
So I made a shortcut of C:\WINDOWS\system32\gpedit.msc and copied it to my start menu :)
You know what the funny thing is? I tried to run and then search for gpedit.msc and I don’t have it. If you know why that might be, let me know.
Chad windows xp home does not have gpedit.msc, are you running this by chance ?
gpedit.msc should be in your C:\WINDOWS\system32 folder, if it’s not there, I’m afraid you don’t have it, which means your running XP Home
OK, I don’t have gpedit.msc, that much I get. But why the hell don’t I have that registry key?
Try to add the registry key if it is not there, that could help. Backup your registry before.
What type of data is this NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers thing?