Windows 7 - Wednesday, March 16, 2011 19:32 - 0 Comments

How to Disable Automatic Update Restart Notification on Windows 7

Windows 7 is the best operating system in Windows family no doubt. However some features of Windows 7 is going to make people cancer. One of these itchy is nofitication window which appear after Windows 7 update.In this article, we will disable and delay this notification.

After every Windows Update, a notification is asking you to restart the computer. This is important from security point of view so the computer and your data is not affected by any malware or security holes. However most of the time a user is not in state of restarting the machine because you might have video conversion going on or you might be doing a file transfer.

Since Windows 7, a very useful option that came was that you can postpone the notification to a max of 4 hours. This means that windows will not prompt you to restart your machine for that duration of time but if you want to disable this notification completely, you can use Local Group Policy Editor to disable restart notification completely or delay it for a longer period. Continue…