Why does "Restart later" keep prompting again and again and again

I will restart later.
Me.
I choose.
Stop keep prompting.
I already chose!
Windows Update I hate you.
You are but a skid mark on the underpants of software development.

adolf garlic wrote:
> I will restart later.
> Me.
> I choose.
> Stop keep prompting.
> I already chose!
> Windows Update I hate you.
> You are but a skid mark on the underpants of software development.

Nice little poem.

I find this mildly annoying, too, but I don't let anything install
automatically - just download & notify, so you can get some degree of
control over this. Just install updates & reboot before lunch or dinner or
something.

Yes. I am experiencig this same problem. I CHOSE "d/l but let me choose
..." but yet it keeps prompting to restart now or later. I have programs
running that I DON'T want to restart until I am done with them. If I
walk away from the cpu for a few minutes, I'm afraid that it will reboot
since I am not there to choose "restart later" and I will lose what I am
NOT READY to close yet! If I CHOOSE to set ************MY*************
computer to not restart until ***********************I******************
press the damn restart button, then THAT'S the way the damn software
should run!!!!!!!!!! I can find no way to set this thing so that it
runs the way ****I**** want it too!

Sheez, Redmond!! Is it now "All your base are belong to US?!"

I understand that Redmond is trying to change the image that they don't
care about security, but this is the sledgehammer approach, and if I
CHOOSE to take "the risk" of restarting when I FELL LIKE IT, then that
should be the way it runs!




adolf garlic wrote:
> I will restart later.
> Me.
> I choose.
> Stop keep prompting.
> I already chose!
> Windows Update I hate you.
> You are but a skid mark on the underpants of software development.

SkinsFan wrote:
> Yes. I am experiencig this same problem. I CHOSE "d/l but let me
> choose .." but yet it keeps prompting to restart now or later. I have
> programs running that I DON'T want to restart until I am done with
> them. If I walk away from the cpu for a few minutes, I'm afraid that
> it will reboot since I am not there to choose "restart later" and I
> will lose what I am NOT READY to close yet! If I CHOOSE to set
> ************MY************* computer to not restart until
> ***********************I****************** press the damn restart
> button, then THAT'S the way the damn software should run!!!!!!!!!!
> I can find no way to set this thing so that it runs the way ****I****
> want it too!
>
> Sheez, Redmond!! Is it now "All your base are belong to US?!"
>
> I understand that Redmond is trying to change the image that they
> don't care about security, but this is the sledgehammer approach, and
> if I CHOOSE to take "the risk" of restarting when I FELL LIKE IT,
> then that should be the way it runs!

Mine nags me, but doesn't reboot on its own.
>
>
>
>
> adolf garlic wrote:
>> I will restart later.
>> Me.
>> I choose.
>> Stop keep prompting.
>> I already chose!
>> Windows Update I hate you.
>> You are but a skid mark on the underpants of software development.

I had the same experience last night. I kept getting interrupted every five
minutes to put off the countdown. On my work PC I was not so fortunate. I
came in this morning to find that it had reset because of this "feature"

"SkinsFan" wrote:

> Yes. I am experiencig this same problem. I CHOSE "d/l but let me choose
> ..." but yet it keeps prompting to restart now or later. I have programs
> running that I DON'T want to restart until I am done with them. If I
> walk away from the cpu for a few minutes, I'm afraid that it will reboot
> since I am not there to choose "restart later" and I will lose what I am
> NOT READY to close yet! If I CHOOSE to set ************MY*************
> computer to not restart until ***********************I******************
> press the damn restart button, then THAT'S the way the damn software
> should run!!!!!!!!!! I can find no way to set this thing so that it
> runs the way ****I**** want it too!
>
> Sheez, Redmond!! Is it now "All your base are belong to US?!"
>
> I understand that Redmond is trying to change the image that they don't
> care about security, but this is the sledgehammer approach, and if I
> CHOOSE to take "the risk" of restarting when I FELL LIKE IT, then that
> should be the way it runs!
>
>
>
>
> adolf garlic wrote:
> > I will restart later.
> > Me.
> > I choose.
> > Stop keep prompting.
> > I already chose!
> > Windows Update I hate you.
> > You are but a skid mark on the underpants of software development.
>

I may found the answer. A colleague of mine found this link that suggests
the answer. However, in true MS fashion, there is a bug.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro.../sp2maint.mspx

This link seems to correctly identify the problem but the solution is not in
the correct location, near as we can tell.

The correct location seems to be:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update

With NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers set to one.

This has not been tested yet so who knows if it will really work. Hope this
helps.





"Hokiefan" wrote:

> I had the same experience last night. I kept getting interrupted every five
> minutes to put off the countdown. On my work PC I was not so fortunate. I
> came in this morning to find that it had reset because of this "feature"
>
> "SkinsFan" wrote:
>

I checked, but I have "ForcedReboot", not "NoAuto..."
ForcedReboot is set to 1. I would THINK that a value of 0 would be what I
want, but any thoughts?
ROb

"Hokiefan" wrote:

> I may found the answer. A colleague of mine found this link that suggests
> the answer. However, in true MS fashion, there is a bug.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro.../sp2maint.mspx
>
> This link seems to correctly identify the problem but the solution is not in
> the correct location, near as we can tell.
>
> The correct location seems to be:
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update
>
> With NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers set to one.
>
> This has not been tested yet so who knows if it will really work. Hope this
> helps.
>
>
>
>
>
> "Hokiefan" wrote:
>
> > I had the same experience last night. I kept getting interrupted every five
> > minutes to put off the countdown. On my work PC I was not so fortunate. I
> > came in this morning to find that it had reset because of this "feature"
> >
> > "SkinsFan" wrote:
> >

SkinsFan wrote:

> Yes. I am experiencig this same problem. I CHOSE "d/l but let me choose
> .." but yet it keeps prompting to restart now or later. I have programs
> running that I DON'T want to restart until I am done with them. If I
> walk away from the cpu for a few minutes, I'm afraid that it will reboot
> since I am not there to choose "restart later" and I will lose what I am
> NOT READY to close yet!
Hi

The registry setting below should disable the 5 minute countdown timer
(to automatic reboot). Create a text file with file extension .reg
and put the text below in it.

------------------ Start registry file -------------------
REGEDIT4


[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Win dows\WindowsUpdate\AU]
"NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers"=dword:00000001


------------------ End registry file -------------------

Applies to both Win2k and WinXP.

For more information, see "Summary of behavior for
NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers registry key settings" here:

http://winservices.web.cern.ch/WinSe.../Internal/SUS/

(should apply to Automatic Updates as well as SUS)

Note that this setting is available as a Group Policy configuration
for those running Active Directory.



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Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
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MrMoustacheMM wrote:

> I checked, but I have "ForcedReboot", not "NoAuto..."
> ForcedReboot is set to 1. I would THINK that a value of 0 would be what I
> want, but any thoughts?
> ROb
Hi

The registry setting below should disable the 5 minute countdown timer
(to automatic reboot). Create a text file with file extension .reg
and put the text below in it.

------------------ Start registry file -------------------
REGEDIT4


[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Win dows\WindowsUpdate\AU]
"NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers"=dword:00000001


------------------ End registry file -------------------

Applies to both Win2k and WinXP.

For more information, see "Summary of behavior for
NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers registry key settings" here:

http://winservices.web.cern.ch/WinSe.../Internal/SUS/

(should apply to Automatic Updates as well as SUS)

Note that this setting is available as a Group Policy configuration
for those running Active Directory.


--
torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...r/default.mspx