Stop restart prompt after Windows Updates

After the Windows Update has completed downloading and installing patches from Microsoft site, usually at midnight. It prompts you to restart. You get this prompt anytime. Even when you are busy working – like burning a disc, have 8 – 10 application windows open etc…

The annoying thing about this is You always keep clicking “Restart Later” as the progress bar shows the progression of how soon your computer will be restarted. Though you have about 5 minutes, if you are away from the computer, you might loose some unsaved work.

Even more annoying is even if you click “Restart Later” is comes again Nagging you every 10 minutes. So This article talks about how to stop windows update tool to prompt a restart.

How to Stop Automatic Updates from Restarting your PC

To do this,

1. Click Start, Run, type CMD, to open the command prompt.

 If you are in Vista,

Click Start, in the search box, type cmd

2. In the Command Prompt window, Type net stop wuauserv and Enter.

That’s it.

You can also do this process very simply.

Very Simple way to Execute net stop wuauserv

Step 1

Your first step is to open Notepad. (Start > Run > Notepad > OK)

 

Step 2

Type net stop wuauserv and Save it as netstop.bat

What we doing here, is creating a Windows batch file, saving it as .bat. I am saving this in the Desktop. You can save it the location you like. Double clicking to open the batch file, executes whatever in there, as if we are typing it in the command prompt. And remember to save .bat files, as All Files in the Save as type: You can create a batch file in this way to execute anything that you would type in a command prompt. This is simple, you don’t need to open command prompt every time and type the command to execute it. Just double-click opening it will execute the command.

Step 3

Next step is to double-click on the netstop.bat that we created in the Step 2 to open. Open will execute the command. Let’s do that now, to execute the command net stop wuauserv

When ever Automatic Updates prompts you to restart, you can just double-click and it executes and exits. And Exits the Automatic Updates as well. But don’t disable the automatic update permanently. To turn it back on, you need to enable it again. Let’s Microsoft find updates for us, when ever it can. I recommend to leave the Automatic Updates  on. It helps save you a lot of trouble in the future. Like a problem arises just because you don’t have an hotfix or a patch. Automatic Updates gets you this as soon as they release it.

Let’s get to work, and stop these ‘midnight windows patches” restart nag, disappear with a double-click!