{"id":171,"date":"2011-02-16T13:42:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T13:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=171"},"modified":"2011-02-16T13:42:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T13:42:22","slug":"temporarily-disable-automatic-reboot-in-windows-vista-or-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/temporarily-disable-automatic-reboot-in-windows-vista-or-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Temporarily Disable Automatic Reboot in Windows Vista or Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, 'Sans Serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, 'Sans Serif';\"><strong>Temporarily Disable Windows Update\u2019s  \tAutomatic Reboot in Windows Vista or Windows 7<br \/>\n<\/strong>Windows Vista \/ Windows 7<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>So you\u2019re in the middle of doing something important on your computer when  \tthe \u201cRestart your computer to finish installing important updates\u201d dialog  \tcomes up, and asks you to restart your computer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2010\/restartwindows.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"464\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The quick way to disable the reboot for the current session is to stop the  \tWindows Update service from running. You can do this by opening an  \tadministrative mode command prompt. Type cmd into the start menu search box  \t(at the bottom) and use Ctrl+Shift+Enter to open in administrative mode. You  \tcan also type CMD in the start menu search and when CMD appears at the top  \tof the menu, right click and choose, &#8220;Run as administrator&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>When the command dialog opens, type the following at the prompt (where the  \tcursor is flashing):<\/p>\n<p>net stop \u201cwindows update\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t worry, you&#8217;ll still get Windows updates, you&#8217;re just turning it off so  \tyou can finish your session. The Windows Update service will start again  \twhen you reboot your computer. But now, at least, you won&#8217;t have that  \trestart dialog popping up in your face when you&#8217;re trying to watch &#8220;The Andy  \tGriffith Show&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temporarily Disable Windows Update\u2019s Automatic Reboot in Windows Vista or Windows 7 Windows Vista \/ Windows 7 So you\u2019re in the middle of doing something important on your computer when the \u201cRestart your computer to finish installing important updates\u201d dialog comes up, and asks you to restart your computer. The quick way to disable the reboot for the\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/temporarily-disable-automatic-reboot-in-windows-vista-or-windows-7\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}