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Keep XP SP2 from rebooting your machine automatically
It happens to all of us. Your working away on something really important - for me it is a few thousand lines of code. The phone rings you talk. Talk some more. Come back and - Ta Da! All your work is gone and your system is rebooted! Later you discover that it was the trusty Microsoft automatic updates.
Sure we all want to be patched to the hilt - but come on! Blow my work away to get it on there as fast as possible!
This 'feature' (Not sure I would call it that!) is easy to disable. You can create a new registry key here:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
Create a new DWORD value under this key called: NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers and set it to the number one. Reboot and you are ready to go.
Oh yea. For the lazy types (Thats me) we wrote a little proggy that will do it for you:
Download Here
A final note - if you are on a corporate network and a group policy is in place this will have no effect - ha - you weren't supposed to do this anyway ;()
Posted By: Steve Wiseman on Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Apple Unveils new intel line
Just as I predicted, Apple has unveiled their new Intel line of computers. Just one more step in the direction of their master plan. A new Intel iMac, and a new Intel based laptop that starts at just $1,999. A few more software additions and updates. A blow by blow accounting of the whole thing can be found here
Posted By: Steve Wiseman on Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Utility to reboot a computer remotely on your lan
I found this free utility on the net a year or two ago. It was one of those free programs someone threw up on a bog somewhere. It allows you to pick a computer that is in your windows domain, and reboot, shutdown or logoff the user remotely.
Click here to download it
Posted By: Steve Wiseman on Tuesday, January 10, 2006
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