Re: Why does WinXP automatically reboot for updates?

Kyuzo wrote:
> Yups, sadly to say, you are not the first person to experience
> this. I personally hate it also because I leave my downloads
> overnight sometimes and someitmes I wake up to see that my computer
> is at the login screen. In your case, you had to learn the hard way
> that you should always back up your work every 10-15 minutes, or
> even every 5 minutes if you are a cautions person like me. A
> solution I did was just to turn off Automatic Updates. This is not
> recommended however if you will not take the time to manually check
> for updates yourself. If you are dead set against doing that, then
> you can turn off this feature by editing Group Policy. Follow these
> instructions:
> 1. Hit Start button -- Run -- gpedit.msc
> 2. Computer Configuration -- Administrative Templates -- Windows
> Component -- Windows Update -- Enable the option "No auto-restart
> for scheduled Automatic Updates installations (Please read
> description to verify this is what you want to accomplish)

You could have set the updates to download and notify instead of install...

Then you get the advantage of having it download them when you aren't
worried about it and then choosing when to install the updates (thus when to
reboot if needed) - because it will notify you they are ready to be
installed.

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