Today Jeremy pointed to an application called Why Reboot?, which, in the words of its author: … is a small (~60KB) Windows application that displays a list of pending file operations that will occur after rebooting your computer. We hope this helps you determine the extent of any post-reboot changes made by an installer. This looks to take the same approach as PendMoves from the Sysinternals folks. Because part of my team’s responsibility is our product installers, we’re always on the lookout for unnecessary system reboots. When folks in QA or other users report that our installer prompted for a…