{"id":1399,"date":"2012-09-20T16:28:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T15:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2014-06-02T21:53:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T20:53:04","slug":"windows-update-restart-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/2012\/09\/windows-update-restart-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Update | Restart Prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;RESTART YOUR COMPUTER TO FINISH INSTALLING IMPORTANT UPDATES&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>My life would be so much simpler if this prompt didn&#8217;t keep showing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yes<\/strong> we know Windows has updated&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Yes<\/strong> we know if needs a reboot&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>No<\/strong> we can&#8217;t do it in the middle of the day&#8230; So don&#8217;t ask me again in 4hours time or infact ever (until I have rebooted), especially when it\u2019s on a TS \/ RDS with multiple domain users connecting.<\/p>\n<p>Although I do enjoy (<a title=\"Sarcasm\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sarcasm\" target=\"_blank\">sarcasm<\/a>) having another email whinging about why the server is prompting for a reboot, when in fact, the update has already been applied. (Yes I do understand this is there for a reason, but sometimes it just isn&#8217;t practical to restart servers every-time, every-day of the week, this is what a reboot schedule is for!)<br \/>\nOK. RANT OVER&#8230;<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not sure why you can&#8217;t fully disable this, Microsoft&#8217;s way of ensuring you do actually reboot, however there are a few workarounds I&#8217;ve listed to help rid of that <a title=\"pesky\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/pesky\" target=\"_blank\">pesky<\/a> message.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Temporary Method using CMD:<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre lang=\"basic\">sc stop wuauserv<\/pre>\n<p><strong>GPO Method (gpedit.msc):<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre lang=\"basic\">Local Computer Policy \/ Computer Configuration \/ Administrative Templates \/ Windows Components \/ Windows Update \/ and disable Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations.<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Regedit:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This will allow you to set the 1440min &#8220;Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations&#8221; to more that 1440min.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/cc708449%28WS.10%29.aspx\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/cc708449%28WS.10%29.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;RESTART YOUR COMPUTER TO FINISH INSTALLING IMPORTANT UPDATES&#8221; My life would be so much simpler if this prompt didn&#8217;t keep showing. 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