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Microsoft justifies Vista’s forcing of unwanted reboot

blogs.zdnet.com — I was able to confirm the behavior with Microsoft who sees this not as a bug, but as a feature of Vista. In other words, Vista behaves this way by design: a decision I find troubling given the sort of interruption it can lead to.

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  • grumpyrain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Well it is not a bug in Vista. Unexpected behaviour maybe, non-ideal behaviour maybe, but it is exactly the same behaviour as Windows XP. When running as a standard user, it will force a reboot. It is pretty easy to disable through group policy editor.

    gpedit.msc
    Computer Configuration -> Administrative Template -> Windows Components -> Windows Update
    Enable "No auto-restart for scheduled Automatic Updates installations"

    Or if you are using a version without group policy editor, then you can do the same through regedit.

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwarePoliciesMicrosoftWindowsWindowsUpdateAU
    Set NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers to 1.
  • pedmond, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I bet the reboot took much less time than writing this long article. Between the two, I'll take the reboot. Sorry, but it just seems like a lot of whining to me...

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