JOhnson Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 When you get a windows update and after its downloaded to your computer "WHY" do you have to "Restart" your computer ... It always happens when your doing something that is the annoying part ... Question do you have to "Restart" and if you didnt what would happen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Zantetsuken Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 most of the time if you don't restart you will get a pop up every so often asking you to restart, sometimes it will have a time like 30 minutes if you don't choose to restart it will restart on its own when the time limit expires. but i restart soon after, gets annoying seeing the pop up lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Moderator chain Posted January 30, 2009 Site Moderator Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 yeah thats one annoying popup, but i always if doing something in vista hit 4 hours restart, then it dose lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest X-Fusion Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 The registry entries and patches it adds don't become valid until after you restart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
takaharu_ Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 If it's modifying a system file (eg: a %systemroot%\system32 file) then you'll need to restart your computer. Also, because the built-in feature for updating the registry (which has to be manually run) doesn't immediately update everything changed in the registry it requires a reboot for those too. Oh and system components, most of those need a restart too. Â If you don't restart after updating, your PC's more liable to crashing and whatever security hole(s) Windows Update just patched will be there. Â The most annoying part about Windows Update for XP was that if you select anything other than the option to stop it from checking for and downloading updates it will do it for you and restart your PC, usually when you've left it on and gone to bed (or just AFK for a few hours) while your PC's doing something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOhnson Posted January 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 thank you to all that replied to my posting ... it has enlightened to the fact that you need to restart you computer even though at times it can be annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalX Posted January 31, 2009 Report Share Posted January 31, 2009 i delay it till easy time to update but it's a good thing with Windows 7 is the cut down on necessary restarts and things, though there's still some it's not as many. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
err0r Posted January 31, 2009 Report Share Posted January 31, 2009 i can't remember what exactly i saw but i'm pretty sure it was a mirc addon that would click no on the auto restart popup.. it either clicked it or stopped it , i don't really remember. I only read the description of it.. prolly on mircscripts.org or something. Though i don't recommend it. You should always restart your pc as soon after an update as possible. But the addon could be useful if you are away or something i guess. anyways i'll look tomorrow and see if i can find it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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