This will be useful for you if you are still using Windows XP and don’t like it how sometimes after installing an update the system tells you to restart now or later. If you choose later, it will keep reminding you to restart by showing “nice” popups in the bottom right corner of your desktop. And if you happen to be typing up an important document that you unfortunately forgot to save, chances are that you accidently activate the restart procedure by pressing a Spacebar or an Enter key (when the “Restart Now” popup comes up) are pretty possible. What will you end up with ? Correct…losing your document and probably getting really angry followed by a pretty strong urge to scream (and maybe later cry).

What you can do to temporarily avoid the possibility of losing your stuff is disable the nag screen.

There is not much to it - it’s just a one line command that you need to execute from the Start / Run window:

sc stop wuauserv


This essentially stops a “Windows Update / AutoUpdate”. Part of its responsibility is to remind you to restart the computer upon successful system update.

You can of course place this command into a batch file and place it on your desktop to simplify the usage. Of course recommendation to restart after update is there for a reason and you should always restart when the system demands it. However, there will be some days when you would not want to restart and this is when the script (shown above) will kick some bearings!