Comments on: Why Are You Asked to Restart After Install or Uninstall Software?

By: fud-lite

fud-lite — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:01:05 +0000

@lakshmi

1) You mean delay it, or tell it to run later?

To delay it, go Winkey+R, then type \”cmd\”

Next, type shutdown -s -t XX

XX being the number of seconds you want to delay the shutdown.

2) You mean you want install shield to force a shutdown w/o asking the user? Not going to happen.

3) Yes. If a shutdown is in progress, it is still possible to abort it. Hit WinKey+R, then type \”shutdown -a\”

If you made it in time, then the shutdown should have aborted. Otherwise, buh-bye. ;-)

By: lakshmi

lakshmi — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:22:36 +0000

Please help me with the below questions
1) Can we stop the shoutdown process for some time.
2) Which method in Install shield will cause the shut down process.
3) Can i abort a shutdown process

By: V

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:48:41 +0000

The reboot process after any installation is just a OS confirmation steps to register all the registry changes.Whether to click “Restart Now” or “Restart Later” completely depends upon how the important and penetrative the installed thing is.

Even the “WhyReboot” software cannot detect some registry changes which are performed by some malicious softwares too.

Still nice post.Keep the good work.

Cheers!!!

By: tnm

tnm — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:47:20 +0000

hey ray, why don’t you have a full rss feed? It is easier to reed blogs with full rss feeds on rss readers offline then it is with the ones that have the “read more”/ “read the rest of the entry” link.

thanks for the services you dish out though!

GBY

By: Ashfame

Ashfame — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:14:15 +0000

Thanks for sharing the application. I never thought of any utility that can do such a job. Good Find. :D

By: Eric Wallace

Eric Wallace — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:01:14 +0000

But but but the PendingFileRenameOpeartions is _not_ the only reason why the installer/uninstaller would want you to reboot the computer.

For example, an installer may not start the program’s services but wait until they are auto-started upon reboot–so you would have to know to start them. Or some drivers simply cannot be started in place but will need to be detected and run during the right time in the boot sequence.

Or, an uninstaller may be unable to remove services due to certain program windows open (e.g. the Services MMC), and thus they won’t be removed until reboot… and if you need to re-install, it’s a bad idea to do that now because even if that service installs again, it will be deleted the next time you reboot!

I’m just sayin’…

By: tullius

tullius — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:37:49 +0000

always nice to know why we have to reboot, thanks