In Vista when you install updates you can postpone a restart for upto four hours. Is there a similar prog for XP and if there is can it be made into and addon?

TIA

Running the hotfix with "/norestart" command does the job offline, but your asking for windows update installations. I have no idea for that, sorry.

Thanks for the response. It's for when Windows updates automatically (little yellow shield thing in the systray) and then pops up a window asking to restart or postpone. In Vista you can postpone for up to 4 hours. Not a big problem just a small annoyance really.

Edit : Just found this

http://thebackroomtech.wordpress.com/2007/10/12/how-to-delay-the-windows-automatic-updates-reboot-nag-screen-and-the-automatic-reboot-after-applying-updates/

Describes a reg file to delay restart for 24 hours.

Also this.

http://www.ejabs.com/blog/2007/05/how-to-disable-the-windows-xp-automatic-updates-restart-nag-screen/

How can I incorporate this in nLite or similar?

Edited June 24, 200816 yr by bigb

Ok, nice find. You can add these registry entries in one of your inf files:

[REGEntries.AddReg]
HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU","RebootRelaunchTimeoutEnabled",0x10001,01,00,00,00
HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU","RebootRelaunchTimeout",0x10001,a0,05,00,00
HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU","NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers",0x10001,01,00,00,00

Then the trick would work (dunno if it does what you want, though)

Edited June 25, 200816 yr by MrNxDmX

Will try this out but it could be a long time before being able to test. Not all updates require a restart

Thanks.