Rid Of The Annoying “Restart Now” In Windows XP

I was browsing through various blogs, watching some of my favorite shows from HBO, all the while being annoyed by the ever present:

I thought, there must a way to get rid of this annoying pop-up. Of course, unlike many of Windows annoyances, there is a quick and easy way to get rid of this repetive nagging.

While your small yellow shield is running in the system tray, you also have a process running called “wuauclt.exe”. You can easily kill this process via your task manager, but you’ll see it come back within a few minutes, so here is how to rid of this process permanently: