Jon Galloway

Cool. Another one : On the above screen, under Administrative Templates / System right-click on "Display Shutdown Event Tracker" and select properties. Select Disabled to prevent Windows from asking for a reason why you are shuting down Win2003 Server.

Thanks - This tip saves a lot of us from those irritating countdowns...Cheers

Thanks for that - I'm going to find it very handy.

Holy cow! Great tip. I was, until recently, blissfully ignorant of the fact that Windows would automatically reboot your machine after an update. I normally manually update since I am adverse to things auto-magically happening with my stuff, but *#$ happens and I lost some work a while back because of this. thx

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I'm happy with this information and that I found it. I have a gameserver running at home and the automatic reboot would be a big problem, because the server will shutdown and all players in it :-D

Thnx.

the setting name is "No auto-restart for scheduled Automatic Updates installations". Will this setting work for manual windows updates?? I.e. if I go to the windows update site and manually choose updates to install.

and if I do not have automatic updates configured, will this work. My computer is configured to tell me when there are updates available for download, and then I choose to download and install them or not. Will this setting work in this case, or not?

It doesn't work in XP. Only in XP pro

It's not as straight-forward as you think: To quote the EXPLAIN tab in group policy, "will not restart a computer automatically during a scheduled installation if a user is logged in to the computer."  IF A USER IS LOGGED IN is a big deal if you don't want the machine bouncing when no one is around (hosting virtual machines, etc.).

SO I HERD U LIEK MUDKIPZ?

I have a windows server 2003 that kept restarting in the middle of a working day, this sorted it out nicely

This tip made my day!!! - I can't wait for my new iMac

Thanks it helped me a lot....

Hi,

My laptop runs on XP Pro.  Normally, when I start my laptop, I reach the logon screen where I input my password and then get to my desktop.  

I left my computer on one night downloading stuff and apparently there a system restart was initiated (according to event viewer) after a security update was downloaded.  

My question is when windows automatically reboots after and update (it does, doesnt it?), does it automatically log me back in without asking for my logon password, or does it take me to the screen where my password is required to log on?

The reason I'm asking is I want to be sure nobody else was fiddling around with my laptop while it was lying on my desk.

Thanks!

Thank you so much, this will stop windows rebooting my computer while I'm asleep and letting AVG do it's thing, as well as those incredibly frustrating 10 min interval messages.

I'm amazed that windows won't allow a simple disable or even a wait xx mins/hours before restarting.

how do I reboot my computer

I have regular XP and Qwest (who installed liveone on my computer).  How do I stop it from automatically updating.  I went to bed at 3AM with a bunch of work on my computer and it automatically updated me and lost the work.  I HATE AUTOMATIC UPDATES AND HATE BILL GATES FOR DECIDING WE ALL TOO STUPID TO UPDATE OUR OWN COMPUTERS.

Thanks alot, It was making me mad after several times of restarting without asking for my permition, I usually don't shutdown my computer.

What really did microsoft think when it restarts the computer when there are unsaved documents open?