Cisco and Windows XP Help

Have you seen this?

My original solution was to extend the amount of time between ‘Restart Later’ nags. Of course now only the Administrator can use ‘Restart Later’.

The solution now is two-fold. I’m setting the updates to download and install automatically in the middle of the night. If the user shuts off the computer at the end of the day, Window’s XP SP2 Automatic Updates will download and install the updates the next morning when the computer is turned on.

So we still need to disable the auto-restart message. That is done by:

To prevent Automatic Updates from restarting a computer while users are logged on, the administrator can create the NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers registry value in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU. The value is a DWORD and must be either 0 (false) or 1 (true). If this value is changed while the computer is in a restart pending state, it will not take effect until the next time an update requires a restart.

Thank you, Tim Rains’ Weblog.

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