Design Pitstop

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

So you just installed your recommended windows update like a good little computer user, and now windows asks if you want to reboot. You answer “no, I’ll do it later” and the window goes away…for now. But sure enough, you’re in the middle of doing some work, and it comes up again. I can’t tell you how many times this has caused a zoom in 3D Studio Max or creating a path in Photoshop to mess up. For me (and I’m sure many users out there), it has become enough for me to sacrifice my system’s security and tell it not to install the update at all. After all, that little yellow shield never does anything but sit there…it’s much more friendly than the alternative. But no more! With just 3 clicks, you can prevent it from showing up until you decide to reboot on your own.


From Asymptomatic:

Press Windows-R. Type “services.msc” in the box and press Enter. Scroll down the list that appears to the item “Automatic Updates”. Right-click that item and choose “Stop”. All done. No more notice.

When you do eventually reboot (at your lesiure), the service will restart so that you’ll be informed of future updates. But you won’t be annoyed for the rest of the session.

Sphere: Related Content

Tags: troubleshooting, Windows

If you found this article useful and use StumbleUpon, please give it a thumbs up so more people can read it! Thank you!

Please take the time to check out this thread and leave a comment letting me know what you would like to see from this site. It's still relatively young and trying to find its way- you can make design pitstop the resource you always wanted!