Since Windows 10 , Microsoft has displayed a widget in the taskbar that shows content from MSN, such as Selecting products for synchronization using the WSUS console is relatively cumbersome. With PowerShell, you can filter them by search Microsoft has released version 21H1 of Windows This is a small update that is activated via an enablement In most environments, the crucial task of distributing updates for Windows, Office, and other Microsoft products is handled by I walked away for a long lunch and wonderful windows just automatically rebooted on me to finish installing an update.
I hadn't yet saved a couple hours of work yes, I know, this is probably my fault for not saving early and often, but Apparently, Microsoft Word "AutoRecover files are not designed to be saved when a logoff is scheduled or an orderly shutdown occurs. Anyway, I can't find the setting to turn off the auto-restart in Windows 7. Through Control Panel, I can get to the "Choose how Windows can install updates" settings, but I can only control when I install the updates, not when the reboot occurs.
I want updates to automatically install, but not reboot until I choose to do so. Any suggestions? I've had this problem several times when I've left a job running overnight, or just when I was looking at a bunch of documents, websites etc.
Came back to an empty desktop, thanks Microsoft. What really annoys me though is that for years, one of the first things I do in Windows when installing is to set windows update to download updates but let me choose when to install, and yet regularly they seem to include an update which changes your settings back to install and reboot automatically!
Beware if you install Office and download the first update for that. That one seems to reset your automatic updates settings. There have certainly been others too. It's getting to the point that I think I'm going to have to manually check Windows Update settings after every windows update I manually approve! This "feature", along with my other favourite Windows feature where pop-ups steal focus when you are typing away, and you dismiss them with a keystroke without even seeing what it is you agreed to or cancelled, drives me crazy!
I so hate this "feature" that I first saw on Windows 7. I saw it when I came into work in the morning and clicked "postpone" because I had a lot of things open I needed to work on. While I was eating my lunch, I watched Windows just begin to close everything!! Most of it I hit cancel and it just forced it closed, destroying all my unsaved work! There was no way to even stop the shutdown process once it started.
If it keeps nagging me, I will eventually run my system updates and reboot usually at the end of the week, like I do on my Mac , but forcing a reboot and killing all of a users data! This definitely shouldn't be enabled by default. Now I'm behind a few hours at work.
Thanks for the post. I've disabled it, but noticed people mentioned in the comments this didn't work. Let's give this a shot and see what happens. Totally agree I'm not sure about the guys at Microsoft but a server "automatic" restarting without supervision by an administrator is one of the most senseless and dangerous things in a professional, productive server environment. Really, on a mission critical system you don't want the system to decide for itself to perform a reboot.
What if the system in question is a heart-monitor in an hospital IC station? The default setting for any serious sysadm should be: no unsupervised reboots. A serious sysadm plans maintenance windows every month, week, or for my part day when the system is safely on the ground and a reboot is allowed.
Just disable automatic updates. Why should microsoft decide when you apply updates in the first place. Disable Auto Update? Most people will quickly forget that they did so and soon open themselves to all the nastiness the electronic frontier has to offer. Do not disable AU.
The jerks of the world make new malware and find new exploits every day, the updates try to protect you from this. This does not specify which versions of Windows this applies to. It did not work for me on Windows 7. Will this disable the prompts entirely or only to the value I set in the second setting? If I want to disable them entirely what should the settings be? Ron The fact that the post has a date of July should have been a pretty good indicator for you that it wasn't written with Windows 7 in mind.
So am I right in understanding that there is no way to manage this popup permanently in XP? If that's the case, then I agree with Dave that it would be useful to have stated that in the article. Why should I have to trawl through the comments to work that out, Ryan? I see there are various options for handling it at the time it happens, but I would like to sort out my parent's PC such that it pops up only every 4 hrs, and will never auto reboot without the user's OK.
Isn't that possible? It's not clear from the comments. And it that's not possible then I'm dumbfounded. It's so obvious and following all the complaints didn't they introduce and XP update for this? Another thing I do is, if it's not giving a countdown to auto restart, then I just leave the dialog at the side of the screen without clicking Now or Later. Very helpful with stopping the auto restart after an update.
I'm currently trying to restore files that were lost and didn't feel like baby-sitting my computer for hours to keep Windows from restarting. Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Every time Windows performs an automatic update, my computer refuses to shut down. I have to keep restoring it to a previous point, which obviously isn't ideal if they are security updates. I can only turn it off by crashing it. But I've already closed all the programmes.
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