From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Microsoft says 'This behavior in Windows XP with Service Pack 2 is by
design and is not a bug.' - see link below. I can somewhat understand their
reasoning on this but there should just be a check box in autoupdate to
turn reboot off rather than force users to search the web for a registry
entry.


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU and
create a DWORD value named NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers. Then set it to 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555646


"Geo."  wrote in message news:4581adba{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Antti Kurenniemi" 
wrote in message
> news:45819367$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> Yeah. Wonder when he'll learn to shut off the automatic updates?
>
> He did learn, just didn't set it on all his machines. But the real
> question
> is when will microsoft learn, I mean yes they are following in IBM's
> footprints but even IBM tech support asks if you can reboot before leading
> you down some possible cure path...
>
> Geo.
>
>

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