Comments on: Get rid of that “Restart Now” dialog box

By: PVL

PVL — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:52:30 +0000

The max is 1440 minutes (which is one day).

By: PVL

PVL — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:51:07 +0000

To avoid the restart, hit Win+R (or Start>Run) and type “gpupdate.exe /force” (w/o the quotes obv.) This should force the settings to take place.

By: Tom Shakely

Tom Shakely — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 02:41:48 +0000

What a fantastic tip! Thanks very much.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:02:50 +0000

David is right – gpedit.msc does not exist on XP Home.

However, Windows XP Home users can switch off the nag by saving the following as a .reg file then choose to merge it:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU]
“RebootRelaunchTimeoutEnabled”=dword:00000000
“NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers”=dword:00000001

(Thanks to a comment at http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000294.html by Squeegee)

By: Charles Jones

Charles Jones — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 02:35:33 +0000

Or just do a ‘net stop wuauserv’ and a ‘net start wuauserv’ and no reboot is needed.

By: David

David — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:10:35 +0000

This is only for XP Pro…