Windows update nearly complete: help I don't want reminding
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Windows update nearly complete: help I don't want reminding
12-08-2009 12:47 PM
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All the methods of disabling permanently the annoying message, which seem to come up as often as a Underground train relate to XP Pro installations. Is there actually a method for XP Home, or am I stuck with the pesky nuisance?
Re: Windows update nearly complete: help I don't want reminding
12-08-2009 12:53 PM
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Re: Windows update nearly complete: help I don't want reminding
12-08-2009 3:17 PM
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Well, because I do not want to discontinue what I am doing. I should be in control, not Microsoft.
Quote from: ReedRichards Why don't you pause what you are doing and restart the computer (which will enable the installation to complete)? Then no more messages!
As I wrote the thing is pesky.
Re: Windows update nearly complete: help I don't want reminding
12-08-2009 3:38 PM
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12-08-2009 4:02 PM
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Even at work, when they forced it to be on via the domain policy, I stopped the service
Bit dodgy, but then all the messages got on my nerves, and it had a habit of automatically rebooting a test machine when we were running overnight tests.
Re: Windows update nearly complete: help I don't want reminding
12-08-2009 4:15 PM
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Quote from: lucerne [As I wrote the thing is pesky.
Well it is, but it is also fairly unusual. It usually happens after a major update where your computer may be left in an unstable and indeterminate state and you are ill-advised to keep working on it. If you have this a lot (as the original post implies) you must be one of those people who never turns off their computer (using sleep or standby instead). Your original post also implied you had the time to seek ways of turning off the message. I think your time would be better spent complying with it!
Earlier in the year a piece of malware called the Conficker worm made the news. Various institutions and government departments were hit but this was months after Microsoft had issued a patch to guard against the worm so all the well-publicised hits were on computers that were not running automatic updates.
Re: Windows update nearly complete: help I don't want reminding
12-08-2009 6:47 PM
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@ReedRichards...sorry if I was tetchy. I did find another suggestion to add a registry key
. It made d### all difference.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU]
"RebootRelaunchTimeoutEnabled"=dword:00000000
"NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers"=dword:00000001
The post was interesting. I've now compromised to download but i choose when to install.
Re: Windows update nearly complete: help I don't want reminding
12-08-2009 6:52 PM
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12-08-2009 7:35 PM
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12-08-2009 7:43 PM
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Quote from: lucerne I do not want to discontinue what I am doing. I should be in control, not Microsoft.
in which case, the solution is obvious: use Linux
Re: Windows update nearly complete: help I don't want reminding
12-08-2009 8:17 PM
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However when I went to shut down, the standard shut down said will do, but the 10 downloads will be installed first, so went away to do something useful, came back to find it had shut down
Re: Windows update nearly complete: help I don't want reminding
12-08-2009 8:40 PM
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Quote where your computer may be left in an unstable and indeterminate state and you are ill-advised to keep working on it
That'll be whenever you've got Windows running then!!
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Re: Windows update nearly complete: help I don't want reminding
12-08-2009 8:56 PM
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Re: Windows update nearly complete: help I don't want reminding
13-08-2009 12:31 AM
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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU]It dis not work, but perhaps was wrong with the input details. If a brain better than mine (there musr be plenty ;D)can tell, I'm curious. In the end I decided to keep auto but choose time to install.
"RebootRelaunchTimeoutEnabled"=dword:00000000
"NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers"=dword:00000001
Thanks for replies.
Re: Windows update nearly complete: help I don't want reminding
13-08-2009 4:40 PM
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Or run this from the command line:
[tt]net stop "automatic updates"[/tt]
Make sure the Service is turned back on after you've rebooted!
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