Na caixa de dicas: Interromper a reinicialização automática do Windows, ativar menus do Unity no Chrome e janelas do PuTTY com guias

One of the most annoying “features” of Windows Update (and others) comes when you have seven busy windows open and they keep popping up the reminder that you have to restart your computer for the changes to take effect. That means saving everything, closing everything, and waiting for a reboot. Then just try to remember where you were before you were rudely interrupted.

This appeared originally on HTG, but here is the ultimately convenient form. Create a new batch file with the following contents:

net stop “automatic updates”

pause

and save it with an easy to remember name: GOAWAY.bat. One click and it shuts down the update service. Don’t worry: it WILL come back next time you boot up, hopefully at a more convenient time before you get 11 windows open.

Just drag and drop a shortcut on your desktop. I changed to the “NOT” icon (red circle with a slash, to make it easy to find. An unhappy face would also work.)

While sifting through the features in Google Chrome’s about:flags, I found a setting to enable the Unity menus for it. Enter about:flags into the Chrome address bar, scroll down until you see an item called “Experimental GNOME menu bar support. “, and turn it on. Restart Chrome and you’ll notice the change immediately.

I use PuTTY a lot and can’t imagine using it without PuTTYTabManager. Essentially it’s just a GUI wrapper for PuTTY that allows you to open and manage multiple instances of PuTTY… perfect for those times you need to SSH into one box, telnet into another, etc. It’s a real time saver for PuTTY power users!