# wtf microsoft automatic updates. **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [May 23, 2007, 12:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtf-microsoft-automatic-updates/29769 "2007-05-23T12:54:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JustinH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JustinH](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JustinH)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 12:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtf-microsoft-automatic-updates/29769/1 "2007-05-23T12:54:52Z")
Hey Guys. I have a dell in my home office that does nothing but crunch database data and process it to keep my website synced with my suppliers inventory. Its pretty much mission critical. Example if someone orders something that is not in stock, then that looks really bad for me, and sucks having to send back any money that they send via credit card. Anyways, I have automatic updates turned on, and I like that. But now its doing automatic reboots after it installs the update. This is driving me nuts. It will force a reboot, and kill the process I was working on, and then I have to re establish the connection to the database. Sometimes the computer will sit for a week or so, and I’ll remote into it and get very pissed off that I basically lost a weeks worth of time updating the website. Losing a weeks worth of time is insane, because it literally takes 48 hours to crunch data for each product line that we do. Can anyone let me know how to stop it from doing automatic reboots when i’m working on something? Thanks, JH ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 12:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtf-microsoft-automatic-updates/29769/2 "2007-05-23T12:57:01Z")
turn off automatic updates. if u update and u dont reboot, then its not gonna do anything anyways. so u might as well just take some time every few weeks to remote in, download and install updates and reboot. ---
**Author:** ![brent\_strong](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/brent_strong/32/7203_2.png) [@brent\_strong](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/brent_strong)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 12:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtf-microsoft-automatic-updates/29769/3 "2007-05-23T12:59:44Z")
Turn on download but don’t install? ---
**Author:** ![Daddie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/daddie/32/7621_2.png) [@Daddie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Daddie)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 1:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtf-microsoft-automatic-updates/29769/4 "2007-05-23T13:00:26Z")
Is it a part of a domain? What kinda OS is it? go into your group policy manager =\> administrative templates =\> Windows components =\> Windows update Screw with the policies there. Where you can auto download and manually schedule the install, and also there’s a policy for “No Auto-restart for schedule AU installs” ---
**Author:** ![articzap](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/articzap/32/7361_2.png) [@articzap](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/articzap)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtf-microsoft-automatic-updates/29769/5 "2007-05-23T13:25:48Z")
Can’t you have it start and connect on windows bootup? ---
**Author:** ![JustinH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JustinH](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JustinH)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 2:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtf-microsoft-automatic-updates/29769/6 "2007-05-23T14:38:12Z")
[quote=“Daddie,post:4,topic:29769"”] Is it a part of a domain? What kinda OS is it? go into your group policy manager =\> administrative templates =\> Windows components =\> Windows update Screw with the policies there. Where you can auto download and manually schedule the install, and also there’s a policy for “No Auto-restart for schedule AU installs” [/quote] its xp home. I’ll check that out howie… thanks… ---
**Author:** ![BuickGN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/buickgn/32/7200_2.png) [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 4:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtf-microsoft-automatic-updates/29769/7 "2007-05-23T16:04:19Z")
your using xp home for something critical? lol ---
**Author:** ![JCuz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jcuz/32/7338_2.png) [@JCuz](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JCuz)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtf-microsoft-automatic-updates/29769/8 "2007-05-23T16:12:08Z")
turn off auto update then disable all of security center on start up ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 4:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtf-microsoft-automatic-updates/29769/9 "2007-05-23T16:13:13Z")
Right click My Computer \> Properties \> Automatic Updates tab \> Download updates for me, but let me choose when to install them. I have my 2k3 server set to install them at 7am because no one is using it at that time. ---
**Author:** ![JustinH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JustinH](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JustinH)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 11:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtf-microsoft-automatic-updates/29769/10 "2007-05-24T11:06:44Z")
[quote=“BuickGN,post:7,topic:29769"”] your using xp home for something critical? lol [/quote] beleive it or not yes… Came with the dell computer, it works absolutely fine. ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 11:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtf-microsoft-automatic-updates/29769/11 "2007-05-24T11:17:22Z")
> Unfortunately Windows XP Home users can not do much to change this behavior, except saving all the data before going to sleep or disabling the automatic updates. [http://www.aviransplace.com/index.php/archives/2004/12/18/tip-disable-auto-restart-in-windows-update/](http://www.aviransplace.com/index.php/archives/2004/12/18/tip-disable-auto-restart-in-windows-update/)