Restart Your Computer To Finish Installing Important Updates

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I've got some kiosk computers that are on a domain and permanently logged in, and receive updates for FEP through WSUS. This works great, except that occasionally, I get this dialog appearing in the bottom right hand corner:

Today when I went to restart my computer instead of saying restart in the power stings it said your pc will restart and update in 2 days. Is there any way to stop this from happening? Windows 7 'Restart your computer to install important updates.' The problem is that on the Windows update page shows the message 'Restart your computer to install important updates.' If you click on check for updates it will show: 'Windows update cannot currently check for updates because you must first restart the computer so that a. Why you may be prompted to restart your computer After you install a security update, you may be prompted to restart your computer if one of the following conditions is true: The security update updates a DLL that is loaded in one or more processes that are required by Windows. Shiraz rip server crack. The security update cannot be completed while the DLL is loaded. Windows Update stuck on 'Restart your PC to finish installing updates'. Important Note: Antivirus software can help protect your computer against viruses and other. 'Restart your computer to finish installing important updates' Loop - Problem Solved. But the machine kept displaying that annoying message every 10 minutes or every reboot and wouldn't go away. Turns out the problem was due to a file located under C: Windows winsxs called Reboot.xml. 'Restart your computer to finish.

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I thought that by setting the No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations GPO to 'enabled', these wouldn't appear, but it seems like they still show up. Here's a screenshot of the Windows Update GPO I'm applying:

What am I missing? How do I turn these notifications off?

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I think you'll need to use the user portion of Group Policy - same path, Admin Templates, Windows Components, Windows Update and use Remove Access to use all Windows Update features set to Enabled, and with the setting 'Configure Notifications' set to 0.

If you want WU's to apply, you'll obviously need it set to the (machine side of GP) option that says automatically download & schedule the installation as the user will not be able to interact with WU in any way.

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Computer Configuration > Admin Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update

1.6 download. Enable two options:

  • No auto-restart for scheduled Automatic Updates installations
  • Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations

Enable the first parameter to block automatic restarts after update installations, and set the second to a high enough period to receive the reboot prompt less often (1440 mins = 24H).

Found no more elegant solution :(

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FEP doesn't need 'Configure automatic updating' to be set to '..install'. As long as the update is set to regularly check for updates (not even download), FEP will go in and install the signatures updates itself as soon as the machine knows there's an update available.

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