Turn off automatic restart windows 2008

In a time where Apple's Mac is already "stealing" a lot of Windows customers, it is a very risky and dumb feature to add to Windows. So back to the question. I tried following some tutorials on YouTube, but little did it help obviously, as i just came home and found my computer restarted, and my work deleted. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback.

When i double click the "No auto-restart with automatic installations of scheduled updates" i get a popup in where i can enable the policy. Though after enabling it, i get asked to set active hours.. All my hours are active. I don't want any restarts in active or inactive hours. I just want Windows to stop restarting automatically no matter what time it is. I will restart myself when i need it. It's not possible to disable the restart, because the changes made by a feature update can only be processed while the computer is not being used.

Most software operates this way. I have the same issue. I am running computer simulations on my machine which take hours to days.

You come back to your machine and it has rebooted, hussah! This is my machine and if I want to use it to make a living I don't want to lose work just because you morons think that an automatic reboot is a funny idea!

I don't want to change active hours. I tried the UpdateOrchestrator option but it already says "Disabled" for reboot, so that obviously doesn't work. You can cancel the scheduled disk check using either Command Prompt or Registry Editor. Open a Command Prompt as an administrator. If you want to disable a scheduled disk check on C: drive, type the following command and press Enter. Open the Registry Editor.

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Verify your account to enable IT peers to see that you are a professional. I can bet that your have a Group Policy enabled on that server. JoeAtkins This person is a verified professional. Thansk for all responses. Clash-ion's response was more detailed and step-by-step. This topic has been locked by an administrator and is no longer open for commenting. It's getting to the point that I think I'm going to have to manually check Windows Update settings after every windows update I manually approve!

This "feature", along with my other favourite Windows feature where pop-ups steal focus when you are typing away, and you dismiss them with a keystroke without even seeing what it is you agreed to or cancelled, drives me crazy!

I so hate this "feature" that I first saw on Windows 7. I saw it when I came into work in the morning and clicked "postpone" because I had a lot of things open I needed to work on. While I was eating my lunch, I watched Windows just begin to close everything!! Most of it I hit cancel and it just forced it closed, destroying all my unsaved work! There was no way to even stop the shutdown process once it started.

If it keeps nagging me, I will eventually run my system updates and reboot usually at the end of the week, like I do on my Mac , but forcing a reboot and killing all of a users data! This definitely shouldn't be enabled by default. Now I'm behind a few hours at work. Thanks for the post. I've disabled it, but noticed people mentioned in the comments this didn't work. Let's give this a shot and see what happens. Totally agree I'm not sure about the guys at Microsoft but a server "automatic" restarting without supervision by an administrator is one of the most senseless and dangerous things in a professional, productive server environment.

Really, on a mission critical system you don't want the system to decide for itself to perform a reboot. What if the system in question is a heart-monitor in an hospital IC station? The default setting for any serious sysadm should be: no unsupervised reboots.

A serious sysadm plans maintenance windows every month, week, or for my part day when the system is safely on the ground and a reboot is allowed.

Just disable automatic updates. Why should microsoft decide when you apply updates in the first place. Disable Auto Update? Most people will quickly forget that they did so and soon open themselves to all the nastiness the electronic frontier has to offer. Do not disable AU. The jerks of the world make new malware and find new exploits every day, the updates try to protect you from this.

This does not specify which versions of Windows this applies to. It did not work for me on Windows 7. Will this disable the prompts entirely or only to the value I set in the second setting? If I want to disable them entirely what should the settings be? Ron The fact that the post has a date of July should have been a pretty good indicator for you that it wasn't written with Windows 7 in mind. So am I right in understanding that there is no way to manage this popup permanently in XP?

If that's the case, then I agree with Dave that it would be useful to have stated that in the article. Why should I have to trawl through the comments to work that out, Ryan?

I see there are various options for handling it at the time it happens, but I would like to sort out my parent's PC such that it pops up only every 4 hrs, and will never auto reboot without the user's OK. Isn't that possible? It's not clear from the comments.

And it that's not possible then I'm dumbfounded. It's so obvious and following all the complaints didn't they introduce and XP update for this? Another thing I do is, if it's not giving a countdown to auto restart, then I just leave the dialog at the side of the screen without clicking Now or Later. Very helpful with stopping the auto restart after an update. I'm currently trying to restore files that were lost and didn't feel like baby-sitting my computer for hours to keep Windows from restarting.

I can live with the pop up as long as it doesn't do anything I don't want it to do. Will restart once the files are restored and the pop up will be history until next time, I guess. And I did not have to reboot for the change to take affect.

Running Windows XP. The restart window still pops up the auto count-down is no longer included.