How do I prevent Chrome from constantly restarting after chrome://restart command?
2014-04
Doug
I attempted to restart Chrome with the chrome://restart command. Now it cycles endlessly -- shutting down the browser, restarting, trying to open up the old session, executing the restart command again, ad infinitum. How can I disable this? Or clear out the old session?
Doug
I was able to prevent the old session from starting by:
- Starting chrome programmatically in incognito mode (chrome.exe --incognito)
- Going to chrome://flags and disabling the "Better session restore" option.
- Creating a new window (Ctrl+N)
- Navigating to one specific page, like stackoverflow.com
- Close all Chrome browsers.
- Open again.
Maybe there is an easier way to accomplish this, but this is what worked for me.
smhnaji
Uninstall Chrome as well as it's user data.
And then install it again.
palswim
I've mastered how to disable/delay the Automatic Restart prompt after Windows Update deems it necessary to restart my computer in XP.
But, now I'm using both Windows 7 and Vista and that method no longer works. So far, I have not been able to circumvent the Restart Reminder popup that keeps telling me Restart or Postpone decision for 10 min/1 hour/4 hours (and then popping up again after that delay). Does anyone know how to delay that popup for something like a day (24 hours) or disable it completely?
Moab
Maybe this is the solution
http://techie-buzz.com/microblog/postpone-restart-after-windows-update.html
Download page here http://apps.nozavi.com/downloads/viewcategory/5
Some more solutions in this thread http://superuser.com/questions/190448/disable-restart-after-update-prompt-for-server-2008-r2
jsl4980
You can manually edit the registry using regedit. The best explanation I've found is from the How To Geek here: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/prevent-windows-update-from-forcibly-rebooting-your-computer/ The link contains automatic ways I'm posting the manual method here:
Open up regedit.exe through the start menu search box or run dialog, and navigate down to the following key, creating new keys if they don’t exist.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
Create a new 32-bit DWORD value named NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers and give it a value of 1 to prevent automatic reboot while users are logged on. Delete the value to put things back to the way they were.
nickspoon
An easier way than messing around with the registry, or having to run a command after every update:
Open the Local Group Policy Editor:
Start / Run / gpedit.msc
Find the Windows Update settings:
Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Windows Components / Windows Update
Edit these 2 settings:
No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations: Enabled
Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations: Enabled, wait period (minutes): 1440
Now you will not be prompted to restart for 24 hours.
Nifle
Try this command
sc stop wuauserv
see if it stops the nag.
You would need to do this every time you do an update that requires a reboot.
Alternatively, you can go to Start Menu>Run>regedit, on the side click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SOFTWARE>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Run. Once in that folder, right click on the right side of the screen and select New>String Value. Name it "Disable Windows Update Restart Notification" and in the path type in "Cmd.exe sc stop wuauserv" (without the quotes, as those indicate a path).
Other suggestions here, this article is for Vista, but maybe some of the reg hacks will work for 7 http://www.tomstricks.com/how-to-disable-the-annoying-windows-update-restart-prompt-in-windows-vista/
Colonel Panic
Save this in a .reg file. Run it
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU]
"NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers"=dword:00000001