Prevent Windows Update from Forcibly Rebooting Your Computer

We have all been at our computer while the Windows Update dialog pops up and tells us to reboot our computer. I have become influenced that this dialog has been premeditated to detect when we are most busy and only prompt us at that instant.

Real problem comes into engage in recreation when Windows gets drained of reminding us and says that the computer is going to reboot in 5 minutes, and the only way you can prevent the foreseeable is to momentarily disable Windows Update.

There are two ways that we can disable this behaviour, however. You will still get the prompt, but it won’t force you to shut down.
I do not believe this dodge will work for XP Home or Vista Home users, according to the documentation that I have read. You will have to resort to the temporary disabling measures instead.

Here I’ll discuss the procedure of Manual Registry Hack...
Open up regedit.exe through the start menu search box or run dialog, and navigate down to the following key, creating new keys if they do not exist.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftWindowsWindowsUpdateAU

Generate a new 32-bit DWORD value named NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers and give it a value of 1 to prevent automatic reboot while users are logged on. Delete the value to put things back to the way they were.

Downloadable Registry Hack...

Simply download and extract the registry hack files to disable automatic reboots. The other script will remove the hack.

Hack should work for the professional or business editions of XP, Vista, or even Windows Server.