Posts Tagged ‘windows update’

How To Kill The Annoying Windows Update Restart Popup

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Using Windows XP and keep getting the prompt to restart your computer, after downloading Automatic Updates?

I do, and it annoys me to death.  It happens to pop up at the most inopportune times, watching a movie, playing a game, developing a website, etc.

For those of you that are lazy, I have created a simple .bat file to kill the annoying windows update restart popup.  Simply download the file and open it.  A black box will appear, and then go away.  You should see the windows update box go away.

I originally found this post on LifeHacker