Comments on: Can I disable the RESTART option after completing windows update? Is there any way to cancel a Reboot?

By: Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com

Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:19:35 +0000

Thanks for stopping by and giving your admin’s 2 cents :)

By: Aakash Shah

Aakash Shah — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:20:26 +0000

Hey Karl! I’m from sunny (usually) California :)

By: Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com

Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:57:32 +0000

Spoken like a true admin Aakash! Where are you from?

By: Aakash Shah

Aakash Shah — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:42:34 +0000

@Steve: If you still don’t have the ability to see the Group Policy Manager after Karl’s instructions, then you may have XP Home edition, which I don’t believes offers access to gpedit.msc

@MJ: The default option to install and reboot the computer is at 3am. So, if your computer asks you to begin rebooting around lunch time, it is possible that your IT person has set your computer to do this. If this is the case, then you will not be able to change this via Group Policy. However, Kedar’s response to stop the “Automatic Updates” service will still work as long as you are an administrator on your computer. However, if your IT person is the one who set your computer to do this, talk to him/her and ask them to help you out. I personally have set up different reboot policies for some people at work because they had legitimate reasons, and so your IT person may be able to do the same.

By: Aris

Aris — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:02:22 +0000

Great tutorial!

By: Karl L. Gechlik

Karl L. Gechlik — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:28:00 +0000

@Steve – yes. goto start run type mmc.

then add a new console called group policy follow the steps above from there.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:21:00 +0000

“gpedit.msc” does not appear to be a file on my computer. Is there another way to access this setting?

By: Kedar

Kedar — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:53:00 +0000

Right! Sorry Karl.. I had missed that…

Good work ATA! Very cool!

By: Karl L. Gechlik

Karl L. Gechlik — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:59:00 +0000

@Kedar – There is most definitely a search box for AtA. It is the uppermost left corner of the site next to the Blogger logo – this searches our site only.

Give it a go and you won’t be sorry… It will give you first hand access to all our articles in a searchable database.

Thanks for reading!

By: Kedar

Kedar — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:47:00 +0000

I noticed there is no search available at ATA... can you have a searchable database? That would be hugely helpful!

Anyway, about the disable restart tip.. Cool tip!

I know how to stop the restart pop up by manually going in to:
Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance > Administrative Tools > Services, and shutting down the "Automatic Updates" service to prevent my computer from annoyingly reminding me (yeah, yeah).
But I didn't know I could configur that!