NO, I don’t want to Reboot Now!

Reboot SettingsAfter some Windows Update fix, it often asks us to reboot to complete the installation. We answer “later” but after some minute it asks it again.
And so on, until we choose to reboot just to make it stop it.

How to change this setting?

Start > Execute… > write “gpedit.msc” and press Enter;
in the window that will open itself: “Local computer policy” > “Computer configuration” > “Administrative templates” > “Windows components” > “Windows Update”;
The setting we’ve to modify is ”Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations”: a double click on this row and we’ve the configuration… “Disabled” will stop begging us at all. I think the best option is to set it to “Enabled“, but with the delay set to a lot of minutes (I set up to 720, 12 hours), to make it remember us anyway, in a more discrete way.

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5 commenti

  1. FOGwNH said:
    April 25th, 2006

    Ummm… 720 minutes is 12 hours (720 / 60 = 12). 30 hours would be 1800 minutes (30 * 60 = 1800).

  2. whitewale said:
    April 25th, 2006

    Works great on XP Pro, gives error on XP home

  3. crash893 said:
    April 25th, 2006

    the max allowed settng is 1440

  4. riccardo said:
    April 25th, 2006

    Thank you FOGwNH, I fixed it :D

  5. Attilla said:
    April 26th, 2006

    This doesn’t work for me. Says that it can’t find this alleged “gpedit.msc”

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