Stopping Windows Update auto reboot

Time and again, I've lost work because I've been pulled away from my computer
and windows update decided it was more important to reboot my computer right
then than it was to let me save me work. Is there anyway of preventing the
auto reboot short of turning off windows update?

Terry wrote:
> Time and again, I've lost work because I've been pulled away from
> my computer and windows update decided it was more important to
> reboot my computer right then than it was to let me save me work.
> Is there anyway of preventing the auto reboot short of turning off
> windows update?

Change it so that *you* control when it installs updates. Doesn't change it
automatically finding or possibly even downloading them - just that you then
control when they install and thus - when the reboots happen.

Also - if you walk away from your computer - you should save your work.
Common sense. ;-)

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Yes, choose a setting other than "automatic."


Terry wrote:
> Time and again, I've lost work because I've been pulled away from my
> computer and windows update decided it was more important to reboot my
> computer right then than it was to let me save me work. Is there anyway of
> preventing the auto reboot short of turning off windows update?

"Terry" <> wrote in message
news:138BC30F-5AA8-46AE-ADCF-...
> Time and again, I've lost work because I've been pulled away from my
> computer
> and windows update decided it was more important to reboot my computer
> right
> then than it was to let me save me work. Is there anyway of preventing the
> auto reboot short of turning off windows update?

Weren't you crying about this a few days ago?
--


"Don't pick a fight with an old man.
If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you."

"Terry" <> wrote in message news:138BC30F-5AA8-46AE-ADCF-...
> Time and again, I've lost work because I've been pulled away from my computer
> and windows update decided it was more important to reboot my computer right
> then than it was to let me save me work. Is there anyway of preventing the
> auto reboot short of turning off windows update?


Stop the service: net stop wuauserv


---

I had a funny thing happen to me recently. I set MalwareBytes Anti-Malware
(MBAM) to do a thorough scan (full scan) of my system. The dang thing was
soooo slow, had not finished after 7+ hrs so I went to bed thinking it would
be finished in the morning; but when I woke up, alas, Windows Update had
rebooted my system and whoosh went my long-awaited MBAM Scan Results. Hehe,
that's funny, looking back on it, but you're right, one should save his work
before leaving computer, but in this instance I forgot about the possibility
that WU would do this to me!


"Shenan Stanley" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Terry wrote:
>> Time and again, I've lost work because I've been pulled away from
>> my computer and windows update decided it was more important to
>> reboot my computer right then than it was to let me save me work.
>> Is there anyway of preventing the auto reboot short of turning off
>> windows update?
>
> Change it so that *you* control when it installs updates. Doesn't change
> it automatically finding or possibly even downloading them - just that you
> then control when they install and thus - when the reboots happen.
>
> Also - if you walk away from your computer - you should save your work.
> Common sense. ;-)
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

It's interesting how the responses range from empathy to ridicule. Must be
nice to live in a perfect world.

-- an Old Man.

"Michael" wrote:

> "Terry" <> wrote in message
> news:138BC30F-5AA8-46AE-ADCF-...
> > Time and again, I've lost work because I've been pulled away from my
> > computer
> > and windows update decided it was more important to reboot my computer
> > right
> > then than it was to let me save me work. Is there anyway of preventing the
> > auto reboot short of turning off windows update?
>
> Weren't you crying about this a few days ago?
> --
>
>
> "Don't pick a fight with an old man.
> If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you."
>
>
> .
>

It is. Thanks.

--


"Don't pick a fight with an old man.
If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you."


"Terry" <> wrote in message
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> It's interesting how the responses range from empathy to ridicule. Must be
> nice to live in a perfect world.
>
> -- an Old Man.
>
> "Michael" wrote:
>
>> "Terry" <> wrote in message
>> news:138BC30F-5AA8-46AE-ADCF-...
>> > Time and again, I've lost work because I've been pulled away from my
>> > computer
>> > and windows update decided it was more important to reboot my computer
>> > right
>> > then than it was to let me save me work. Is there anyway of preventing
>> > the
>> > auto reboot short of turning off windows update?
>>
>> Weren't you crying about this a few days ago?
>> --
>>
>>
>> "Don't pick a fight with an old man.
>> If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you."
>>
>>
>> .
>>