After some Windows Updates, the system wants to restart. If I don't restart immediately, it keeps asking me, over and over, whether I want to restart now. This interrupts my ability to finish what I am doing and I don't like it.
There is a way to alter the length of time between the requests to reboot. I changed mine so that, rather than the nag screen every 10 minutes, it pops up once an hour, now. For your personal computer at home, you might want to apply this change. It is done using a standard feature of Windows to define the time delay, so it isn't doing anything tricky.
You will not be able to make this change if you do not have administrator rights to your computer. If you have administrative rights but someone managers or supports your computer, check with that person before doing this, or anything else, to your PC. Follow the advice from that person, not me. He or she supports your machine, not me.
Here are the somewhat cryptic instructions.
Start / Run / gpedit.msc / Local Computer Policy / Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Windows Components / Windows Update / Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations / choose "Enable" / type in how many minutes you want to wait
After applying System Updates, you should remember to reboot, if requested. You may remain vulnerable until you reboot, so don't set this reminder so long that you never get around to rebooting, OK?
Bill Vilberg
Assoc. Dir. of Instructional Advancement
305-284-3944
