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Sick of Being Nagged to restart every 5 Minutes after an Update?

So many time after the first time Microsoft used this technique to make users restart the computer after updating Windows, it really bothers me that they haven’t changed this.

In Windows XP you didn’t really had a change but to postpone the dialog 10 minutes. Windows Vista “innovated” somehow by allowing the user to select from a time interval of 10 minutes to 4 hours to be warned again.

Unfortunately, even in Windows Vista, after any critical update, the system needs to be restarted. That necessity is easily understandable, as there’s important files to be replaced/updated. But certainly, showing a window every 10 minutes asking to restart is very annoying.

I did a quick search online, and found this easy solution to get rid of the dialog:

1. Open the windows Run dialog
2. Type in “gpedit.msc” and press OK (this opens the “Group Policy” management console)
3. Open “Local Computer Policy”
4. Open “Computer Configuration”
5. Open “Administrative Templates”
6. Open “Windows Components”
7. Open “Windows Update”
8. Double click on “Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations”
9. Select “Disabled”
10. Click “OK”
11. Close the Group Policy management console.

After this, you shouldn’t be bother again.

Either way, I don’t think there’s a reason to sue microsoft over this.