Win-Update Reg Hack

[Matt1eD]

OK, I turn on my compy this morning - Win updates pops ups wanting to install stuff. I accept. Then all day the things been wanting me to restart it.... is there a reg hack for the timer on how often the restart computer popup comes up? cheers

[chinny]

You can disable baloon tips completely - go to:
Start -> Run -> gpedit.msc
User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Start menu and task bar.

About 2/3rds of the way down is an entry titled "Remove Balloon Tips on Start Menu Items" - set this to disabled and you should be rid of them.

EDIT: If you want to go regedit on it take a look at http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;307729

[iranu]

Not sure that balloon tips is what he's after. The pop up is a specific windows "restart now - restart later" window, whereas ballons is on the task bar.

I have to agree it's a pita but you just have to reboot and it's done.

[autopilot]

I'm not sure why he's getting it to be honest, i'm sure i have only ever had to reboot once after an update.

EDIT: You did reboot yeah?

[Atomic]

Start -> Run -> gpedit.msc
Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Update

Everything you need is in there

[Matt1eD]

Yup it's not the balloons. Cheers, I've been away today

Unfortunately getting this:





... it worked a few weeks ago when I was last there using local computer policy.

Tried manually visiting it aswell (through administrative tools).

[chinny]

Sorry - was thinking of the balloon saying your computer has recently installed an updated that required an automatic restart.

Have you tried re-registering the gpedit dll

Start -> Run then "regsvr32 gpedit.dll" without the quotes...

[Matt1eD]

Is this why half the commands in command prompt don't work and claim they're missing?

[chinny]

Sounds like it could be a path issue. If you properties My Computer then Advanced tab -> Environment Variables. In the system variables (bottm half) you've got a path variable. It should have something similar to the following in it:

%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;

The important bit is that you have the

%SystemRoot%\system32

in there.

Cheers

[Matt1eD]

Shows this:

from:System Properties, Advanced, Environment Variables > System Variables

%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;"S:\Norton SystemWorks\Norton Ghost\";S:\GTK\2.0\bin;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\AGL;S:\QuickTime\QTSystem\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\binn\

Cheers

I take it this is why half the scripting I do has stopped working. I can't pin down an exact date but I've done alot of installs and uninstalls of VS05 beta versions (manually and using the MS tool) - could that have screwed some stuff up considering how much stuff it shoves everywhere?

[chinny]

Could be - the gpedit.dll should be in the Windows\system32 folder so guess it's worth checking manually that it is actually there.
It might be at the stage where a reload is the only option....

[Matt1eD]

Tis there

I fear it is