But nothing happened to my test xp desktop. The setting of automatic update is still set to Turn off Automatic Updates, and the desktop had not been patched or rebooted. From the two gpresult log, we can see the following information:. On Windows member server:. On Windows XP client …. Have you removed and re-joined the XP computer to domain?
To check whether the policy is applied, please check the following registry on the XP client:. Can you turn on Automatic Updates feature manually on the XP client? To validate that the GPO was created and linked correctly, please run 'gpresult' in a command prompt on your test xp machine and post the results along with the name of the GPO you are testing.
This output should identify if the machine applied the GPO correctly and if not, provide a reason. I went to the xp desktop to run gpresult and I didn't see the GPO I created was applied to the desktop. I checked the GPO on the DC, and it may be because that the setting of automatic updates does not apply to xp; i couldn't read the rest of the OS version from the setting windows.
The rest of the GPO, default domain policy and domain controller policy were filtered out. It is a computer setting GPO. On the windows systems, make sure you are running gpresult in a command prompt that was started with 'Run as Administrator' otherwise you are only seeing user policies. If you want to post the output of gpresult on the xp machine and include the name of the GPO, I can try and see if there are other issues.
As far as the filtering, there should be a reason listed next to the filtering that would give you more information. 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. So I'm safe to finish what I've started before I'm ready to reboot. I was not directing the question at anyone in particualr. I am running Windows XP 64 bit Version sp2.
THe easiest way to shut down the automatic updates from restarting vista after it has downloaded them is to go to Control Panel then to click on windows updates then on the left side which should be blue click on change settings. When you are here there are many things you can do but I would go to important updates and choose the option you want for me it was Download updates but let me choose whether to install them.
This will allow updates to be downloaded and you can restart your computer when you wish. You also have to set 'Run as Administrator' even when you are logged in as an user with administrator privileges.
Your email address will not be published. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can also subscribe without commenting. Receive new post notifications. Will you deploy Windows 11 to end users in your organization in ? View Results. Member Leaderboard — Month. Member Leaderboard — Year. Author Leaderboard — 30 Days. Author Leaderboard — Year. Leos Marek posted an update 51 minutes ago. Users of Windows 10 Home edition are out of luck regarding this way of disabling Windows 10 updates.
If you opt for this solution, security updates will still be installed automatically. For all other updates, you will be notified that they are available and can install them at your convenience.
This is the way Windows update worked in the past. Today, Microsoft wants to eliminate the need for novice users to engage in updates, but it has enforced this at the cost of flexibility for more experienced users.
From this point forward Windows should notify you that updates are available and it is your responsibility to make sure that they get downloaded and installed. Operating system, driver, and application updates can often lead to unexpected behavior on the computer on which they are installed.
One way to protect yourself and your machine from unanticipated problems is to perform a backup before installing updates to your system.
Unfortunately, when automatic updates are being installed without your approval , you cannot take this precautionary step and face the possibility of having to resort to an older backup if you need to go back past the update.
Many updates need to reboot your machine when complete and certainly take up bandwidth while downloading. This can lead to slower response time and unforeseen reboots that can cause havoc with your work life.
So there are indeed valid reasons to turn off automatic updates in Windows Just be careful not to turn the service off and forget to check for updates. While automatic updates can be problematic, letting your system lag behind critical updates can also have serious consequences.
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