We’ve all seen it, and we are all annoyed by it.
We are particularly annoyed when we have 20 windows open and are multitasking like monkeys in a banana tree (that doesn’t make any sense does it?).
Anyway, that annoying prompt can be turned off with a little thing called Group policy. The cool thing about group policy is you can apply it to one machine using local a local policy, or many machines at once through an OU in active directory. Either way, it is setup the same.
- Hit your Startmenu
- Click Run
- Type gpedit.msc
- Then click OK.
- Select local computer policy
- Computer Configuration
- Administrative Templates
- Windows Components
- Windows Update
- Re-prompt for Restart with Scheduled Installations.
Check the box that says enabled, and set the time interval between prompts in minutes. If you want to not be bothered by the prompt at all, check the box that says disabled.
Just remember some patches and updates won’t take effect until after a reboot, and if you’re like me you don’t reboot very often which could leave yourself vulnerable.
After you have made you settings to your liking, click Start > Run and type gpupdate /force for the changes to take effect. Or you can take the easy way out and reboot.
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I was going to post this yesterday, but I didn’t because you already covered this topic here
Ha ha! No biggie though, it’s good incase people didn’t see it the first time around :-)
By the way, I ‘borrowed’ your google translation idea for Bauer-Power
Wow I didnt think anyone else was keeping up! Especially as weare about to hit 500 articles.
Today being my wedding anniversary and all. I needed to be all romantic and thoughtful like so I didnt have any time to write something new either do a re-run or some syndication that helps Bauer-Power as well!
BTW: avenue q is really fucking funny! thanks Barrcuda Tech Guy!
Is there any reason why windows should actually reboot after an update? or is this just to keep it from requiring a reboot right there and then?
@commodore:I think it depends on the update. some updates don’t actually get applied until after a reboot. This is only to keep your computer from rebooting right away, and also to keep it from prompting you every few minutes.
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