khoma Posted April 18, 2006 Report Share Posted April 18, 2006 HiEarlier this evening I made the mistake of using the automatic update feature in XP. I told it to download, but not install. I then told it to install. Now it keeps bugging me with very annoying little boxes that pop up every five minutes. There is soooo much bad language that I could think of including in this post (i dumped most of it on a poor, unsuspecting IRC channel) but I'm gonna assume that's against board rules, and instead ask:How do I ensure that windows never, ever under any circumstances short of total system meltdown on the hardware level, NEVER sends me any kind of popup box informing me of something that I will with 100% certainty already know?No luck? Well, then is there at least some hack that lets me use automatic updates without having to suffer these highly annoying boxes? Seriously, I'm perfectly happy with not rebooting my computer until the next power outage, and oh yeah, does microsoft really think that I am so monumentally stupid that I still haven't caught on after the 52'nd annoying little reminder? If I wanted to let it reboot my computer, I would have by now. Okey, still some residual traces of the rage that lead to some minor property damage in my appartment earlier (i really, really despise the fact that I should ever have to reboot my computer, and to be reminded of it every 5 minutes is just too much). Omg there came another one... must... break... something...Any help appreciated, by me and the many breakable objects still in one piece around here,khoma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted April 18, 2006 Report Share Posted April 18, 2006 YES!:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted April 19, 2006 Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 YES!:)Are you sure you two talking about the same thing? Balloons and reboot reminder popups are something different, I believe. I would hate to lose the notification area balloons, as they are very useful. But the rebott nagger pop-ups are true nuisance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted April 19, 2006 Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 To disable everything:You can also use this: disablenotification.zipWindows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]"EnableBalloonTips"=dword:00000000[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]"FolderContentsInfoTip"=dword:00000000[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\tips]"Show"=dword:00000000[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]"StartButtonBalloonTip"=dword:00000000[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]"ShowInfoTip"=dword:00000000[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]"NoSMBalloonTip"=dword:00000000If you need to, this will enable them:enablenotification.zipWindows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]"EnableBalloonTips"=dword:00000001[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]"FolderContentsInfoTip"=dword:00000001[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\tips]"Show"=dword:00000001[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]"StartButtonBalloonTip"=dword:00000001[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]"ShowInfoTip"=dword:00000001[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]"NoSMBalloonTip"=dword:00000001 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted April 19, 2006 Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 Why not just reboot after installing the updates. It takes a couple of minutes only, and it's odds on that the updates won't be applied until after rebooting. I don't see what the problem is. After a reboot I have NEVER seen any more warning balloons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted April 19, 2006 Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 There may be legitimate reasons why a user doesn't want or cannot reboot after updates, e.g. very long running application that cannot be interrupted.I personally would love to be able to disable the nagging pop-up, but of course the circumvention is to install updates when there is no problem doing a reboot afterwards. We all know that the slightest Windows update always requires a reboot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted April 19, 2006 Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 There may be legitimate reasons why a user doesn't want or cannot reboot after updates, e.g. very long running application that cannot be interrupted.I personally would love to be able to disable the nagging pop-up, but of course the circumvention is to install updates when there is no problem doing a reboot afterwards. We all know that the slightest Windows update always requires a reboot.Surely the answer then is NOT to download updates that will almost certainly need reboots while you are running a program that cannot be interrupted. I really cannot see what the problem is. If you want updates, then they only take a minute or two to download and install, and another minute or two to reboot. The whole exercise need take only ten minutes or so at the most. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lukus Posted April 19, 2006 Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 Don't use windows ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted April 19, 2006 Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 Don't use windows ;)It must be dark in your house. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lukus Posted April 19, 2006 Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 Glass Roofs :PIn a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates? (Love that phrase!) :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belatucadrus Posted April 19, 2006 Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 Sounds like a problem I had with Defender, it would download the update, then install it and within a few seconds up popped that nagging little balloon advising me a new download was ready. Exactly the same one I'd just installed. Only fixed when I deleted defender and loaded the latest Beta update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khoma Posted April 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 Surely the answer then is NOT to download updates that will almost certainly need reboots while you are running a program that cannot be interrupted. I really cannot see what the problem is. If you want updates, then they only take a minute or two to download and install, and another minute or two to reboot. The whole exercise need take only ten minutes or so at the most.The Automatic Updates feature is, or so I assume, designed to allow me to keep my Windows install up to date with a minimal amount of work. Ideally, I would like it to download and install the updates, and then do nothing else. I would understand if it asked me to reboot once, but having these redicolous nag boxes pop up in the middle of the screen over and over again with no option to turn them off is just wrong. It's typical Windows behaviour for sure; assume the user is utterly incompetent and attempt to either do things without asking or bug the user into doing things out of pure frustration.As for any explorer reg keys to change it... I'm not sure that'll work. WU uses its own process, wuauclt.exe to launch the nag boxes. If the process is terminated it restarts itself.Don't use windows ;)Really wish I could avoid it ;)Unfortunately there is just too much Windows-specific software that I wouldn't be able to run on any *nix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted April 19, 2006 Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 Don't use windows ;)My brother does not use Windows, but he still gets updates, and he has to go to root to install them.But at least there are no nagging pop ups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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