How to disable Automatic Updates restart prompt

If you are using Windows XP with Automatic Updates on, you’ll be quite familiar with the dialog box below.

It becomes very annoying when you are really busy and the dialog box keeps on coming back. Well, finally I’ve got the easiest solution to get rid of it.

Just go to Start menu –> Run, type services.msc.

You’ll see the following window and right-click on Automatic Updates, choose stop as follow:

Right after you clicked “Stop”, the annoying “Do you want to restart your computer now?” dialog box will go away altogether with the system tray icon. Now you can focus on your work undisturbed.

Source : Microsoft Answers

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