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If you’re a Windows user, surely the prompt window that warns you that the system needs to be restarted has annoyed you a couple of times. Thanks to this useful tip by Daniel Turini you can now configure it so it won’t warn you for long periods of time, or so it won’t warn you at all.
Now, to get rid of it:
Start / Run / gpedit.msc / Local Computer Policy / Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Windows Components / Windows Update / Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installationsYou can configure how often it will nag you (I re-configured it for 720 minutes, which means I’ll be asked twice on a work day), or completely disable it.
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5 Responses for "Stop the Windows Update “Reboot Window”"
June 28th, 2006 at 09:44
1Nice tip. This happened to me a couple of times recently. That mess is annoying.
July 4th, 2006 at 04:33
2From the notes in the panel, disabling it will set it to a default of 10 minutes – not really what disabled means is it?
July 13th, 2006 at 23:19
3Another annoying reminder set in it’s place . I don’t mind being reminded, but it’s annoying when it’s too often. Thanks for the computer policy setting.
January 2nd, 2007 at 09:50
4This is a great Blog!
January 26th, 2007 at 00:24
5If you are suffering from many physical problems like diabetes
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