How do I disable updates on shutdown?

**Calum892** · 16 Mar 2012

I've had this issue for many months now, when I click shut down.. it goes to the light blue "Shutting down" screen then tells me it's installing update 1 of 36 or something ridiculous like that. The problem is.. I've left it on before, overnight, and when I woke up.. It was still at update 1.
So I now just manually shut it off when it gets to the "updating" part, this can't be good for my PC, so I decided to try and disable these updates.

This guide looked very promising:
Disable the “Install Updates and Shut Down” Option in Windows | TipsFor.us

But because of my OS, I don't have the Local Group Policy Editor.

Is there a way to do this via regedit?

Thanks.

**Brink** · 17 Mar 2012

Hello Calum, and welcome to Vista Forums.

You can use OPTION ONE in the tutorial below to do the same thing using a REG file I provided in the tutorial.

Shut Down Windows - Enable or Disable "Install Updates and Shut Down" - Windows 7 Forums

Hope this helps,
Shawn

**Calum892** · 18 Mar 2012

This is what I needed, thank you!

**Brink** · 18 Mar 2012

You're most welcom Calum.

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