Disable auto reboot in windows XP and Home editions

Topics Windows XP on February 17th, 2008

Are you annoyed by the prompt which appears every time you update .

In order to configure no settings for XP Professional and Home your must have service pack2 installed.

But the to remove for XP home and Professional are different.

For XP Professional

1. Open Start >> Run and type gpedit.msc () and press Enter

2. Navigate to the following path

Local Policy\ \Administrative Templates\ Components\ Update

3. Double click “No auto- for schedule Automatic Updates installations” and select to enable this setting.

4. .

For XP Home Edition

Procedure for XP Home edition is quite different as it doesn’t have .

1. Open Start >>Run and type (registry editor )

2. Navigate to the following path[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\\

\WindowsUpdate\AU]

3. Locate the following keys:

“RebootRelaunchTimeoutEnabled” and “NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers” and set their values as 0 and 1

4. if these registry key doesn’t exist create them with type as dword values in this registry location.

5. Exit registry and .

Tip: You can also disable update by typing the following at run prompt.

net stop wuauserv

But before running this , make sure to stop all the instances of wuauclt.exe from right click end process for all wuauclt.exe.

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One Response to “Disable auto reboot in windows XP and Home editions”

  1. Comment by Semi

    Hi,

    I have Windows XP Home edition, but in my registry the location [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows
    \WindowsUpdate\AU] does not even exist. It goes up to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows]. It doesn’t allow me to create new folders, only new keys. Where should I create the keys mentioned in the article?

    Thank you,
    S.

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