My wife’s laptop is running Windows 7, and has the problem that it forces a reboot unless you tell it not to every ten minutes. It’s not the professional edition, so I can’t use gpedit. Looking around the web, there are many solutions like this page, telling me to add an entry to the pre-existing registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
That key does not exist. What does exist is
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows
with no “WindowsUpdate” under it. Can I add that, then add AU, then follow the rest of the instructions? Is it in a new place now or named differently?
I’m not interested in “Get a new OS”, “Get a Mac”, and “Oh, you shouldn’t change it” or other similar unhelpful comments.
In my experience, if a set of instructions involves adding an entry to a key, and you find the key doesn’t exist, then creating the key yourself would work.
What version of Windows IS it? One of the two that I own is Home Premium, and it doesn’t auto-reboot. So I think I have a setting somewhere that tells it not to. I have mine set to download automatically, but only install on my say-so. And when it is installed I don’t think it bugs me every ten minutes. I think it asks me once, and then doesn’t ask again if I say now (but leaves the little icon in the corner as a reminder that a reboot is required to finish updating)