Goaliegirl.com » sysadmin http://www.goaliegirl.com Hockey, gadgets and geekiness. Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:31:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 How to stop your Windows Vista computer from rebooting automatically http://www.goaliegirl.com/2008/11/26/stop-windows-vista-from-automatically-rebooting/ http://www.goaliegirl.com/2008/11/26/stop-windows-vista-from-automatically-rebooting/#comments Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:37:43 +0000 angela http://www.goaliegirl.com/?p=314 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> 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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