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Temporarily Disable Restart Now Dialog from Windows XP's Automatic Updates.

Automatic Updates is a great feature. Your computer stays protected from threats without worrying about it... but if it's 3AM and I'm trying to finish a project for the next day, the last thing I want is for the automatic updates to pop up and remind me every 5 minutes that I need to reboot, interrupting me. Drives me crazy!

If you want to temporarily disable this popup message and delay rebooting, you can go about it one of two ways. I'm a command line junkie, so I just type this into a command prompt (make sure you use the quotes)

net stop "automatic updates"

Or you can open Control Panel \ Administrative Tools \ Services and click Stop on automatic updates.

Do not disable the automatic updates service, just stop it. The next time you start up your computer, it will restart.

Note: If you open the Automatic Updates icon in Control Panel, it will automatically restart the service, which will make the dialog start popping up again.

 

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