Comments on: Freeware: Turn Off Windows Update Restart Nag

By: mike

mike — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:08:28 +0000

i love this utility for the obvious reason of untimely reboots and also having the reboot now window pop up in front of what you are doing and you click on it..

But this does leave you exposed to whatever vulnerability is being fixed the updates you just installed. As you may or may not know, Microsoft “patch tuesday” is generally followed by “exploit thursday”- as hacker’s reverse engineer the fixes, discover the exploits and then spread them around the net. So delaying updates or reboots exposes you to all this !

By: Brad Isaac

Brad Isaac — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:58:42 +0000

Temporarily turn off Windows Update restart nags using Leave Me Alone!
http://j.mp/6MKLxD

By: Brad Isaac

Brad Isaac — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:55:50 +0000

Leonard, glad you find it helpful. It only turns off alerts until you reboot.

Cheers!

By: Leonard Grossman

Leonard Grossman — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:21:06 +0000

Your app killed two birds with one stone. I just installed an update and WU wouldn’t stop nagging me to reboot. Even when I set it for 4 hours it came back every ten minutes. Then I had to leave the room for a while so I took that opportunity to reboot.
When I came back the WU nagger was reminding me that there was an update I hadn’t installed. I chose not to install it. I don’t want to install it, but it wouldn’t stop reminding me.

Your app is intended to stop the reboot message but solves the update waiting issue as well. WONDERFUL.

Question, Your description says it stops reminders “temporarily.”
When do they start again? What starts them?

Thanks again for getting rid of a major annoyance.

Len

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:22:26 +0000

Sweet. I like it. I posted a longer post but your anti-spam blocker ate it

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Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:27:23 +0000

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By: maluc21

maluc21 — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:35:47 +0000

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By: mike carey

mike carey — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:43:39 +0000

@GetItDoneGuy windows update – set update to "download and notify", and use "leave me alone" to stop auto boot msgs http://bit.ly/19YYkK

By: Martin van Houte

Martin van Houte — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:34:28 +0000

@ippeziepe @meneer_van_dale @dijkie Er bestaat trouwens ook een tooltje voor de luiaarden onder ons. http://tr.im/wjXj

By: Dams

Dams — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:57:42 +0000

The netstop commands aren’t too much to memorize but hey that program is a treat, really, it’s soooo nice to be able to kick windows out of your mind by a simple click, really. Those updates messages are quite possibly among the most annoying and upsetting things I know about computers (being a software engineer and a film maker myself…) so congratulations for this brilliant little idea of yours and all the best.