Whenever you go for a windows xp software update you will be notified with a message every 10minutes to either Restart the computer right away or later and this notifications keep popping up every 10minutes which can make you annoyed and would plan to restart but if you are in the middle of some important work then you should find a way to disable this notification and it would pop-up back after a 24 hours delay between which you can continue with your work without any disturbance.
Here is the way to stop these notifications.
* Click Start –> Run –> type in gpedit.msc
* Go to Local Computer Policy –> Computer Configuration –> Administrative Templates –> Windows Components –> Windows Update –>
Next >
* To disable auto restart: double click ‘No auto-restart for scheduled Automatic Update installations’ and enable this function.
* To delay the re-prompt by 24 hours: double click ‘Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations’ and enable this function. Then set the timing to ‘1440 minutes’ - this is the maximum allowable time
Its generally recommended to restart your computer whenever you make a computer windows update because in most cases these are very important security updates and restarting would mean installation of these notifications. You are at risk if you dont restart your computer once the updates are downloaded and installed but at certain times you would need the above trick while you are in the middle of something where you cannot restart. This trick works on Windows XP Professional and not on Windows XP home version.
July 13th, 2008 at 5:00 am
this post is REALLY useful. now i can deal with those updates.. even though i dont know what are they for–they are automatic.grr.thanks..
July 13th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Wow this tip is really useful because I am really irrited by these notifications in windows operating systems,
not only this i am actually most irritated by the disk cleanup message which comes when we are out of disk space in any of our hard drives, do you have a solution for this amit.
July 13th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
@ m.dinesh : You can check out this Solution to Low Disk Space Warning
July 13th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Thank you Amit.
July 13th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
These updates usually complete downloading when the PC is on for a long time period, i.e. when we are in the middle of something.Restarting the computer is the last thing one wants to do. Now using this tip I can escape the frustration and get on to work.
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Thanks for the tip, will also share it with my peers
July 14th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Nice little trick Amit, this can be really useful but only for Windows Update, But at times even few applications ask for restart of system after installations of softwares, is there a way take care of such notifications without needing to restarting the system immediately and postponing the update for the next manual restart??