Complaint about update system

My system is Windows 2000 and it's working very well. My complaint is about the updates. It's running in the background and tonight it told me there were updates to install. After they're installed, it asks if I want to reboot, and I say no, I'm in the middle of some work.

But the rebooter won't take no for an answer! Every few minutes it comes back and reminds me to reboot, and if I'm not there it will start without me in 5 minutes.

1. Where can I disable the automatic updater?

2. Suggestion #1: Allow the user to postpone a reboot after a Windows update for longer than a few minutes, indefinitely even!

3. Suggestion #2: If the nature of the updates means that we really, really need to reboot right an update, then add a warning message to the Update notification feature. Something like: "If you choose to install this update, you will be required to reboot immediately after installation. Do you really want to do this?

4. Allow the user to tell Windows to wait until the screen saver turns on to reboot.

ANYTHING would be preferable to the current method.

Thanks.


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