{"id":56,"date":"2007-05-09T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/56-windows-automatic-updates.html"},"modified":"2007-05-15T19:49:58","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T09:19:58","slug":"windows-automatic-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/56-windows-automatic-updates.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows Automatic Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:110 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"428\" height=\"139\" style=\"float: left;border: 0px;padding-left: 5px;padding-right: 5px\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/restart.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>Ok, nothing to do with diving but something to make your life more enjoyable all the same.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t you just detest the way this pesky little message keeps re-appearing every 10 minutes after you do a Microsoft Update! Has it every been the cause of accidentally trashing all your open work? Here&#8217;s how to change it to remind you once per day so you can keep working and keep your sanity.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nStart \/ Run \/ gpedit.msc \/ Local Computer Policy \/ Computer Configuration \/ Administrative Templates \/ Windows Components \/ Windows Update \/ Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations (if you need more detail than this you probably should not attempt it)<br \/>\n<br \/>\nYou can configure how often it will nag you, or completely disable it. Now for the bad news&#8230; This does not work for Windows XP Home Edition and you will need to restart your computer ( or restart the Automatic Update Service for the techies ) for the new setting to take effect.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nUntil the next post, take care out there and keep updating your computer ( if that&#8217;s what you do! ) &#8230;Robert \ud83d\ude42","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, nothing to do with diving but something to make your life more enjoyable all the same. Don&#8217;t you just detest the way this pesky little message keeps re-appearing every 10 minutes after you do a Microsoft Update! Has it every been the cause of accidentally trashing all your open work? Here&#8217;s how to change &#8230; <a title=\"Windows Automatic Updates\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/56-windows-automatic-updates.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Windows Automatic Updates\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}