Windows automatic restarts
I found a couple hacks a while ago and I thought I would share them with the world. This one I have been using on my work computer for a while and I really like it.
This will disable the pop-up windows gives you to restart you computer every 10 minutes after you install updates.
Go to run and type “gpedit.msc” then go to this directory in gpedit computer config > admin templates > windows components > windows Update. Change the value of “re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations” to something like 720 minutes. Make sure the service is enabled and then you are done. Enjoy not having to stop windows from turnning itself off.
Here is one that that will not prompt you if you are logged into the computer. I have not tried this one but it looks pretty useful. All you have to do is create a new dword value called NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers in HKLM\SOFTWARE
\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU and set it to a value of 1. Seems pretty easy. Let me know what you think. Thanks to Ryan for finding this one out.
I have so much stuff I am working on that I haven’t been able to update my page for a while. Once I actually start to get stuff done (and not just progress reports I will be posting more.