Wednesday, March 14, 2012

How To Shut Off XP Automatic Updates

Sniped from Jeff Atwood: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/05/xp-automatic-update-nagging.html (with pics) and Michael Pietroforte: http://4sysops.com/archives/disable-restart-after-windows-automatic-updates/ (with a nice short list)

  1. Click Start -> Run
  2. Enter “gpedit.msc”
  3. Go to Local Computer Policy -> Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Update
  4. Double-click on “No auto-restart for scheduled Automatic Update installation”
  5. Enable it!
  6. Reboot the computer