How to stop your Windows Vista computer from rebooting automatically

Windows Vista automatically reboots after a specific time period if you have Automatic Updates automatically downloading new updates. I like my updates to download and install, and complete the install the next time I reboot. I’ve implemented the following on my laptop because I do reboot it fairly frequently.

I wouldn’t necessarily recommend this for a desktop, or a system that is not often rebooted because Windows updates can affect currently running services. Instead, for those systems, I suggest downloading updates and choosing when to install them.

The good stuff:

1. Click the Windows Logo (Start button), type “gpedit.msc” and press Enter.
2. Expand Computer Configuration, Administrative Templates, Windows Components, then select Windows Update.
3. Open “No auto-restart with logged on users…”
4. Choose “Enable” and click OK.

That should do it!

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2 Responses to “How to stop your Windows Vista computer from rebooting automatically”


  1. 1 ibrahim

    when i download any thing it reboots
    how can i fix that????????????

  2. 2 Automotive

    Thanks…
    I been facing this porblem..
    Now I think I can fix it..

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