Minimizing restarts after automatic updating in Windows Update

Before the Internet, updates such as service packs and "patches" were impossibly hard to come by. You ordered upgrade "media" or maybe bought a magazine with a CD in it. Of course, the Internet changed all that. In fact, when ftp.microsoft. com was first set up, among the first services was the ability to get updates for MS-DOS and Windows.

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