In Windows XP once you install a patch/update via the typical Windows Update application it always nags you to reboot about once every 5 to 10 minutes.  It gets annoying when your right in the middle of coding up the next million dollar application and your in the zone for that super duper feature.

Well it appears that we can now control the behaviour.  Here is a screen shot...

Oh, the updates were some bug fix for compatibility with Symantec's AV and the ActiveSynch stuff. Nice to see that MSFT is pushing out updates even in the Beta stage.

1 Comment

• jayson knight said Sunday, June 18, 2006 4:19:29 PM

  Yeah this is great stuff. In the interim, after installing updates I go to the services MMC snap-in and stop the Automatic Updates service (which will stop the nag screen from being displayed). It'll start up again when you reboot your machine.