This has practically nothing to do with PHP, other than it could save you some grief should you be editing a PHP file when Windows finishes auto-installing an update and decides to automatically reboot. (What idiot at M$ decided that any upgrade could be so important that it should ever reboot a PC without the user confirming that action?)
Anyway, I got tired of Windows Vista rebooting automatically on me again, so I added a registry setting as described at pctools.com to stop this ridiculous and potentially destructive behavior. Now when it finishes an update it instead prompts me to do the reboot or to postpone it:
The registry setting info:
- System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU]
- Value Name: NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers
- Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
- Value Data: (0 = no effect, 1 = do not automatically reboot)
Here’s hoping someone else finds this useful.
Wow Vista actually does that? Horrible. I’m sticking to my Ubuntu. Also, can you still get that Win98 theme on Vista? I’m amazed. Just goes to show that that was the best UI they were ever able to design :P.
Yeah, I use the “Windows Standard” desktop theme and the “Classic” start menu option, as I find all the newer eye candy to be distracting, harder to read, and a waste of screen space.