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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm
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Boss at work lost a fairly important document he'd spent 45 minutes working on after the machine decided that just then would be a great time to restart for some updates - and this is XP.
You have my sympathy.
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jonlumb
Spends far too much time on here
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Location: Exeter
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Then you're an idiot for doing so.  On a more serious note, I don't know of many serious windows users that leave windows update with free reign. I have it set to automatically download updates, but then it asks my permission before installing.
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm
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That's how I have it, but at some stage you do need to let them install. It really is rather annoying that you have to do so at a carefully calculated time, and I've been caught out by the 10 minute timer myself a couple of times. _________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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cloaked_wolf
What's a life?
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I have manual downloads and manual updates. Even after installing the updates, I tend to continue doing whatever I'm doing and switch the laptop off at the end of the day and then hard boot the next day. That's the 'restart windows' as far as I'm concerned. It's never rebooted on me.
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Angelic
Doesn't have much of a life
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Location: Leeds, UK
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It's pretty awful tbh.
I've got it set to automatically download and then updates install when I shut down at the end of the day.
Annoyingly i've had a situation where it's restarted whilst i've been in-game. For the top spot on the ClanBase ladder. Relatively important that.
I learnt from that mistake.
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lacloss
Doesn't have much of a life
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Location: Marbella Spain
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big_D
What's a life?
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Location: Bramsche
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How did he manage that? It asks whether it should reboot now or not and it won't generally restart if there is an application open with unsaved work...  As to the OP, just use gpedit.msc to change the reboot rules. I have all the machines at work set to update automatically, but wait until the user shuts down, as opposed to automatically requesting a reboot after install.
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eddie543
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:53 pm
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still could never understand why XP was liked so much it gave me so many problems it was unbelievable.
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adidan
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:43 pm
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On XP and Vista I have it set up to notify me of new updates but to ask me whether to install them or not. I don't want it downloading something I may not need.
So, never had this problem.
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
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I don't know! He was typing away happily, looked up and came to join our discussion, got back to his chair and there was a great wailing and gnashing of teeth. I'm not sure if there's some element of the system that's remotely administered, mind you.
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gavomatic57
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Location: Cardiff, Wales
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+1 The random unexplained error messages, the uglyness, the x64 bit version, the almost immediate performance degradation after a fresh install. Nope, I don't get it either. Couldn't wait to get rid of it.
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okenobi
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Location: Sestriere, Piemonte, Italia
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paulzolo
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That would be the “this show has been on endless play loops on Sky for waaayyyyy too long and you need to get out for a bit” feature.
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