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Stopping Windows Update auto reboot

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Terry

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Nov 25, 2009, 12:29:02 AM11/25/09
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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?

Shenan Stanley

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Nov 25, 2009, 3:01:38 AM11/25/09
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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. ;-)

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PA Bear [MS MVP]

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Nov 25, 2009, 3:23:12 AM11/25/09
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Yes, choose a setting other than "automatic."

Michael

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Nov 25, 2009, 7:08:58 AM11/25/09
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"Terry" <Te...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Weren't you crying about this a few days ago?
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Robert Aldwinckle

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Nov 25, 2009, 8:33:07 AM11/25/09
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Stop the service: net stop wuauserv


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Randy Bell

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Nov 25, 2009, 10:15:00 AM11/25/09
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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! :)


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Terry

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Nov 28, 2009, 9:55:06 AM11/28/09
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It's interesting how the responses range from empathy to ridicule. Must be
nice to live in a perfect world.

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Michael

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Nov 28, 2009, 2:28:05 PM11/28/09
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It is. Thanks.

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