Rid Of The Annoying “Restart Now” In Windows XP
I was browsing through various blogs, wathing some of my favorite shows from HBO, all the while being annoyed by the ever present:
I thought, there must a way to get rid of this annoying pop-up. Of course, unlike many of Windows annoyances, there is a quick and easy way to get rid of this repetive nagging.
While your small yellow shield is running in the system tray, you also have a process running called “wuauclt.exe”. You can easily kill this process via your task manager, but you’ll see it come back within a few minutes, so here is how to rid of this process permanently:
START>RUN>CMD> And type sc stop wuauserv
Share This | Posted: June 27th, 2007
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June 28th, 2007 00:11
Nice tips. But, is it safe to turn it off? don’t the program crashing each other later?
June 28th, 2007 00:47
Thank you!! This is extremely annoying. In fact I have put off installing updates because I knew this pop up would aggravate me for the rest of the night. I starred this post in
Google Reader. Now I just have to remember it is there.
Take care.
June 28th, 2007 07:19
Yes, that’s always a risk, but it’s a risk I’m willing to take because this pop-up annoys me so much.
June 28th, 2007 08:37
All those annoyances made run away from Windows so I’m using Linux. It’s far from perfection but it’s a lot more reliable than Windows and have less annoyances.
June 28th, 2007 09:38
I see this pop-up regularly in my office PC and I cant turn it off for security reasons. Anyways nice tip.