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Deozaan:
Biggest Offender:

Windows Update Restart notification window! I HATE THAT THING!
-Deozaan (December 14, 2007, 12:53 AM)
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<a href="http://lifehacker.com/software/windows/disable-windows-update-restart-nag-289998.php">Solution</a>
-icekin (December 14, 2007, 09:18 AM)
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There was one I heard about some time ago that let me change it so instead of asking me every 4 minutes I could change it to 24 hours or something. Anyone know about that one?

Lashiec:
There's one that lets you configure the time window before the computer restarts itself due to the installation of an important update. If you wish, I can paste here the code from the X-Setup Pro plugin, as I can't find anything on the Internet about how to apply it, at least not something as useful as the code.

Darwin:
If you use <a href="http://www.snapfiles.com/get/tweakuixp.html">TweakUIXP</a>, there is a setting to prevent applications from stealing focus. Instead the window will blink a fixed number of times (you set the number) in the taskbar to alert you.
-icekin (December 13, 2007, 08:44 PM)
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I tried it, but it never seemed to work for me. :(

-Renegade (December 13, 2007, 10:04 PM)
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My pet peeve is that this setting never seems to survive a reboot... and I've given up on using the tweak altogether. Anyone know the registry changes made - it would be nice to have a .bat file run on system start...

EDIT: better to read the entire thread befrore commenting  :-[

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=11325.msg90924#msg90924

Thanks, yksyks  :Thmbsup:

Darwin:
Biggest Offender:

Windows Update Restart notification window! I HATE THAT THING!

I'LL SMURFING REBOOT WHEN I WANT TO!
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Smurfing - bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! I love it. I think you've mentioned this as an alternative to, ahem, less savoury language in the past, but I've never seen you use it action. Awesome  :Thmbsup:

Josh:
This is a pet peeve of mine from the days of windows 95. DCUpdater is one application from DC that also has this fault, in fact its forced me out of some dx games which causes windows to choke. No application should steal focus unless it is a virus scanner, spyware scanner, or other security tool.

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