September 29, 200619 yr Is there any way to have windows update automatically, but NEVER reboot automatically? I may have a file open, step away "down the hall" for a moment and when I get back, Stinking Windows thought it should re-boot after updating itself. which means it shut down and lost my open file. How do I find the spot to check that says "Ask for reboot, but don't do it unless I say you can.
September 30, 200619 yr From my experience in the past, Windows never automatically rebooted, it needed user confirmation.Hmmm, yeah, do it manually.
September 30, 200619 yr Author YEAH! That is what I am trying to make it do. I want to MANUALLY reboot when I am ready for it.IF I am at the computer, I do see a window that says, "Windows has updated, Need to reboot. Reboot in 15 sec." But if I had stepped away it reboots anyway. What is worse, it gives me the options to "REBOOT NOW" or "REBOOT LATER". If I reboot later, for some reason that still does not mean when I want it to. About 10 min later it tries it again. WHERE do I find the properties for this??? I would like to even take away the auto Update, But I can't find the properties to even do that. Edited September 30, 200619 yr by lockupking
September 30, 200619 yr personally, i would let it reboot automatically - it's a critical update so it's important.and for me, the restart countdown is 5 minutes for me, not 15 seconds.
October 2, 200619 yr Sounds like this is a company managed computer, possibly through SMS. If that's the case, you probably won't be able to do anything about it.
October 2, 200619 yr i use these settings (manual, noautoboot, notification 60 min.)[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU]"AUOptions"=dword:00000003"AutoInstallMinorUpdates"=dword:00000001"NoAUAsDefaultShutdownOption"=dword:00000000"NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers"=dword:00000001"NoAutoUpdate"=dword:00000000"RebootRelaunchTimeout"=dword:0000003c"RebootRelaunchTimeoutEnabled"=dword:00000001
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