Re: Complaint about update system
- From: "Lawrence Garvin [MVP]" <onsitechsolutions@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:17:24 -0600
"Steven Marzuola (remove wax and invalid for reply)"
<marzgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 2. Suggestion #1: Allow the user to postpone a reboot after a Windows
> update for longer than a few minutes, indefinitely even!
The default period of time to wait after /completion/ of the installation of
an update is five minutes. As Shenan noted, you brought part if this on
yourself by configuring your system to automatically install the updates. It
should also be noted that this automatic installation is done at a specified
time, so either somebody else has configured your system for you, or you're
enjoying the fruits of your own work. Change Automatic Updates back to Option
#3, and you'll be happier.
However, as to the actual question -- you can delay the time period from the
completion of updates to the initiation of the installation by adding these
registry values/data to the registry key at
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
"RebootWarningTimeoutEnabled"=dword:0x1
"RebootWarningTimeout"=dword:0x1e (30 minutes, the maximum allowable value)
Also, if you are an Administrator on your machine, the system will also allow
you to "Reboot Later". By default, this prompt occurs every 10 minutes. You
can delay the time period for this prompt to recur after each click on "Reboot
Later" by adding these registry values/data to the registry key at
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
"RebootRelaunchTimeoutEnabled"=dword:0x1
"RebootRelaunchTimeout"=dword:0x3c (60 minutes, the maximum allowable value
is 1440 minutes)
> 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?
Now.. this one.. is really off the wall. This has been the /NORMAL/ behavior
of Automatic Updates since the feature became available back in the days of
Windows 98. So to claim that you're 'unfamiliar' with this process either
means that this is the first time you've ever used a Windows computer, or
you've simply not been paying attention. (Or, as suggested in the response to
#2, you're not familiar with how your computer has been configured.)
> 4. Allow the user to tell Windows to wait until the screen saver turns on
> to reboot.
For the record... if you have an option to "Reboot Later", then the system
will /NEVER/ initiate a reboot while you're logged onto the system. If you're
getting a timeout counter (5 minutes), then you have /no/ options to delay the
restart.
I noted, also, that you posted your message at 3:40am Central Time.... could
it be that this is the first time you have ever been working at your system at
3am on Patch Tuesday????
This is a once-a-month event. It's fairly common knowledge. Updates are
published by Microsoft on the 2nd Tuesday of the month, and your system /will/
download those updates sometime before 5pm on Wednesday, and, by default,
Windows computers /will/ install those updates at 3am the morning following
the download (assuming the machine is powered on). You just got caught up in a
once-a-month event, that's probably been happening (unknown to you) for many
many months.
> ANYTHING would be preferable to the current method.
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