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How do I disable automatic restarting when using Automatic Updates in Windows XP?

April 26, 2017automatic disable Restarting updates Windows XP

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How do I disable automatic restarting when using Automatic Updates in Windows XP?

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If you have enabled automatic updates on your Windows XP Machine, now the computer will restart by itself. Sometimes this causes problems because people will have programs open and can lose data! Here is how to get around this problem, and it is only for WinXP Pro: Ever since Microsoft release Windows XP Service Pack 2, the company keeps emphasize the fact that you should enable Automatic Updates on your computer. Automatic updates are usually a good thing but there is a serious problem with it. Sometimes updates need to restart the computer to finish the installation. Until SP2 Automatic Updates would not restart your computer automatically. But this is not the case with SP2. Once you scheduled Automatic Updates to be installed (by default at 03:00 AM), if the update requires restart Windows will notify you that it needs to restart. If you are not logged in and do not restart within 5 minutes, Windows will automatically restart your computer. This behavior can cause a lot of problems.