Disable Automatic Restart on System Failure… Right Now
No time like the present.
The Automatic Restart on System Failure option is very simple to understand - if Windows encounters a serious error (like a Blue Screen of Death) it will reboot your computer automatically since that's the only way out of it anyway.
However, if your computer restarts as soon as the error occurs, it gives you absolutely no time to read and write down the error message for troubleshooting purposes.
The catch 22 here is that you have to make this change from within Windows, so if you lose access to Windows via a serious error, you're out of luck. Disabling this option right now is easy and will save you a lot of time in the future if you ever suffer from one of these issues.
How Do I Disable Automatic Restart on System Failure in Windows?
I should note, in Windows Vista and Windows 7, there is a way to disable this option from the Advanced Boot Menu, but it's still considerably easier to just do it now, from inside a working copy of Windows.
Disable Automatic Restart on System Failure... Right Now originally appeared on About.com Focus on PC Support on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at 15:30:24.
