Disable or Change the Way Windows Updates Are PerformedWindows Updates Losiing Data |   | Are you constantly having the Windows Update popup tell you that Windows has been upadated and is going to reboot? Have you forgotten and lost some of your work because of an automatic reboot? Here is how to change the way that Windows Updates work.
First of all, Windows XP defaults to automatically check for updates everyday and will download and reboot if you are not watching your computer or you walk away without saving something. To change this behavior, do the following. First, go to the Control Panel and double-click on the System icon. When the System Properties dialog opens, click the Automatic Updates dialog. It will appear as shown below.
The Automatic button will normally be selected and you can see that it is checking for updates at 9am every day. I don't care to have to deal with this as I often hibernate my computer at night to keep from having to remember what I was doing and start over each day. Also, if I should walk away from my computer just before 9am I may come back to find that my computer has been rebooted and I may have lost some work in progress.
On my computer I have changed the setting to automatically check and prompt me for downloading and installing updates. I have found this to be sufficient for my purposes. That setting is shown in the display below.
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