Comments on: Get Rid Of The Annoying Windows Update Restart Prompt

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:03:23 +0000

Jim is right… This article is misleading… Setting “Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations” to Disabled will not suppress reminders. It states it clearly in the Description. Disabled = 10 minutes

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:15:04 +0000

Does disabled really get rid of the restart prompt? (see text from “Explain” tab below)
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Specifies the amount of time for Automatic Updates to wait before prompting again with a scheduled restart.

If the status is set to Enabled, a scheduled restart will occur the specified number of minutes after the previous prompt for restart was postponed.

If the status is set to Disabled or Not Configured, the default interval is 10 minutes.

Note: This policy applies only when Automatic Updates is configured to perform scheduled installations of updates. If the “Configure Automatic Updates” policy is disabled, this policy has no effect.

By: dave

dave — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:09:29 +0000

Is media center edition different from xp home ? Because i actually have the global policy editor even though i keep reading that xp home doesn’t have it.

By: BetterSolution

BetterSolution — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:22:02 +0000

Go to Start – > Run
Type in CMD
Then type this:
sc stop wuauserv

press enter and it’s over,
does it keep coming?
Make a notepad file with the text

@echo off
sc stop wuauserv

Save it as Updatestop.bat and select all files instead of TXT file.
Every time the screen gets back, click the file

By: Take off the Windows Update restart prompt message

Take off the Windows Update restart prompt message — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:50:21 +0000

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By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:58:17 +0000

That’s very interesting, I wonder when they went and changed that.

By: SLA

SLA — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:26:20 +0000

Thank you for pointing to this website - gHacks.net :)

But there is something wrong in this article:

When I disable "Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations" option via Group Policy Editor, I get ANOTHER registry key created under

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\
WindowsUpdate\AU\

I got:

"RebootRelaunchTimeoutEnabled"=dword:00000000

instead of this one (as in article):

"NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers"=dword:00000001

My OS is Windows XP Professional SP2.

P.S.
2 Joel:
If this folder doesn't exist, then don't worry, just create it. In Windows Registry there are a lots of places, where entire folders or keys do not exist if it was never used. Windows creates those folders and keys automatically when it need it for the first time.

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:03:55 +0000

I have it turned on. Never mind, thanks anyway.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:48:06 +0000

I looked all over and I cannot find an alternate way of doing this. I assume that you do have Automatic Updates turned on and if you do you could try creating the folders in the registry.

By: Joel

Joel — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:27:50 +0000

Emm, version 2002, SP 2.

More information, the Windows folder which should contain that WindowsUpdate folder only has these 4 folders:
-Installer
-IPSec
-RTC
-Safer