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Preventing Windows XP SP2 Home from automatically restarting
Is there any way I can prevent Windows XP SP2 Home from
automatically restarting when it does an update? A little while ago I was in the middle of downloading about 1.8 gigs from the Easynews web server when Windows popped up a message box saying that it HAD TO restart. I clicked "later" but about five minutes later the message box came up again. Since I needed to go to bed and could not sit and supervise my computer for three or four hours, I had to let Windows restart. I lost about a gig of partially downloaded files. I am EXTREMELY annoyed. I think the message box should have a "don't restart until I tell you to" option. It should also check to see if the user is downloading something or using the computer in some other way. Windows could do this by checking CPU and hard disk activity. Can I completely disable this automatic restart "feature"? Thank you in advance for all replies. -- Whenever I hear or think of the song "Great green gobs of greasy grimey gopher guts" I imagine my cat saying; "That sounds REALLY, REALLY good. I'll have some of that!" |
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Preventing Windows XP SP2 Home from automatically restarting
Hi ... If you go to the Control Panel and double click on Automatic Updates
, Place the Dot on " Notify me but don't automatically download or install them " This way you will be notify when there is any and you can choose at what time you would like to update them "Daniel Prince" wrote in message ... Is there any way I can prevent Windows XP SP2 Home from automatically restarting when it does an update? A little while ago I was in the middle of downloading about 1.8 gigs from the Easynews web server when Windows popped up a message box saying that it HAD TO restart. I clicked "later" but about five minutes later the message box came up again. Since I needed to go to bed and could not sit and supervise my computer for three or four hours, I had to let Windows restart. I lost about a gig of partially downloaded files. I am EXTREMELY annoyed. I think the message box should have a "don't restart until I tell you to" option. It should also check to see if the user is downloading something or using the computer in some other way. Windows could do this by checking CPU and hard disk activity. Can I completely disable this automatic restart "feature"? Thank you in advance for all replies. -- Whenever I hear or think of the song "Great green gobs of greasy grimey gopher guts" I imagine my cat saying; "That sounds REALLY, REALLY good. I'll have some of that!" |
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