{"id":48,"date":"2009-10-01T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/?p=48"},"modified":"2012-07-24T20:01:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T00:01:33","slug":"do-not-pass-reboot-do-not-collect-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Do not pass Reboot, do not collect $200&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the annoying things about Windows XP is its tendency to keep pestering the user to reboot after updates have been installed. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m not the only one who&#8217;s been working on a document, only to have the &#8220;Reboot Now?&#8221; dialog box pop up, accept the spacebar keypress that was meant for your document, and happily reboot the machine &#8212; three days into that loooong simulation you&#8217;re running in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freebasic.net\">FreeBASIC<\/a>. Grr.<\/p>\n<p>At least there&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/asymptomatic.net\/2005\/08\/11\/831\/how-to-disable-that-blasted-restart-now-message-from-windows-update\">solution.<\/a> If you stop the Automatic Updates service, the insipid messages go away and don&#8217;t come back until after you reboot. Peace at last&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to stop those annoying &#8220;Reboot Now?&#8221; messages in Windows XP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/?p=48\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sysadmin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2740,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/2740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}