• Windows keeps telling me to “Update and Restart”

    Posted on September 13, 2013 at 12:30 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Just got a good question from a reader, and figured I’d reprint it here, because I hear the question a lot. Larry wrote to say:

    Woody, 

    I’m a bit fuddled…or, maybe it’s be-fuddled! Anyhow, I’m trying to set up and run an HP Pavillion, running Windows 7 Home Premium. 

    Trying to deal with Automatic Updates, I’ve tried walking thru Book VI, Chapter 4 (pp. 653 – ff.). I’ve run thru the procedures on pp. 658 659, but I’m stumped at step 5. I really DO want to be happy, honest; but it almost seems that I’m being a little deserted here!:( 

    I’ve made the recommended changes to System and Security, and you’re right; go to Shut down and those Updates still install…Automatically! ARRGH#$%&^&*! Now what?! 

    In “The windows Shutdown Conundrum” the recommendation seems to be “Pull the plug. Quite literally.” Does this mean…literally force the shutdown by pressing the power switch to OFF? I don’t mind doing so but hope doing so doesn’t cause programs or the hard drive to crash. Any advice?? Pulling the plug won’t turn the laptop OFF unless the battery is removed.

     HELP!!! Please!!!

    And here’s my answer:

    Larry – 

    First, on a new system, install all of the automatic updates, in spite of the recommendations that I give day-to-day on www.AskWoody.com.

     Second, you need to set auto update to “Notify but don’t download” (See the tab at the top of this page)

     If, in the future, you hit the “Install updates and restart” option, yep, your only choice is to pull the blasted plug. Close all your programs first, of course. Then push the Off button, and if that doesn’t work, pull the power.

     Once you’re set up to “Notify but don’t download” you should never, ever get the “Install updates and restart” option. Ever.

     

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