Stop Windows 7 Updates From Auto-Restarting
It is a normal day for full time student Jill who has been working on her anthropology paper. Jill began the day by taking her kids to school, and telling them to behave in class. The drive home is fairly short and soon she is sitting beside her computer pondering about What Makes You Human for her class. It is not long after she begins typing into the familiar screen when a small icon in the corner notifies her the computer is updating. She hardly notices and continues her work. Abruptly without warning the computer freezes and enters into the restart cycle, interrupting her schoolwork stating, Computer is configuring updates. This problem doesn't affect just Jill but many others who are continually interrupted by this feature. Luckily there is an easy solution to this problem. Windows 7 is setup to install updates automatically and then restart the computer. There is two ways to prevent this from happening. The first way will work with only windows Professional and Ultimate, and the second way with all versions.
#1 To begin you will need to open the start menu, which is the large circle with the windows logo on the bottom left hand corner of the screen. In the search box you will need to type “gpedit.msc” without quotes and press enter. A window will open up and show on the title bar “Group Policy Editor”. Select “Computer Configuration” under which you will need to browse to “Administrative Templates” and then “Windows Components”. Look for and choose “Windows Update”. On the right hand side of the screen you should see "No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations" Right click on this item and then select “Properties”. From the window that will show up, you will need to change not configured to enabled and then click okay.
#2 If you can’t seem to find “gpedit.msc” or for some other reason can’t get the above method to work you can manually edit the registry. In the Search Box you will need to type “regedit”. A windows will show up that is divided into two sides. You will need on the left side click the small plus signs and navigate to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU” click on the AU folder and then click on Edit à New à Dword Value. You will then create a new value and need to name it “NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers” (without quotes) and set it’s value to 1. Lastly you need to restart your computer for it to take effect.
Be careful with editing the registry as it contains all your system settings and if messed up can ruin your system!
#1 To begin you will need to open the start menu, which is the large circle with the windows logo on the bottom left hand corner of the screen. In the search box you will need to type “gpedit.msc” without quotes and press enter. A window will open up and show on the title bar “Group Policy Editor”. Select “Computer Configuration” under which you will need to browse to “Administrative Templates” and then “Windows Components”. Look for and choose “Windows Update”. On the right hand side of the screen you should see "No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations" Right click on this item and then select “Properties”. From the window that will show up, you will need to change not configured to enabled and then click okay.
#2 If you can’t seem to find “gpedit.msc” or for some other reason can’t get the above method to work you can manually edit the registry. In the Search Box you will need to type “regedit”. A windows will show up that is divided into two sides. You will need on the left side click the small plus signs and navigate to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU” click on the AU folder and then click on Edit à New à Dword Value. You will then create a new value and need to name it “NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers” (without quotes) and set it’s value to 1. Lastly you need to restart your computer for it to take effect.
Be careful with editing the registry as it contains all your system settings and if messed up can ruin your system!
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