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re: Windows Update and Automatic Reboots

Eddie — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:00:13 GMT

This has to be one of the truly MOST idiotic behaviors EVER put into an operating system!!!! Gah! Microsoft owes me money for hours of lost time!!! I had a search running on a database that was taking several hours. I set it up to run at 2AM and went to bed, KNOWING that my results would be waiting for me in the morning. Efficiency at its best! I get up and find that Microsoft in its all knowing glory has decided that what is best for the system is always what the user needs. Gah, the hubris that must flow around that place while you design your ever helpful software "features" must be truly mind boggling. This clearly trumps the ever helpful Word agent that offers to reformat my entire document on the basis of inserting a single bullet into it....OK, I feel better now. Just let me know where to send the bill for the hours of down time I am going to have while watching this search run AGAIN this morning you bunch of nitwits.

re: Windows Update and Automatic Reboots

Joakim — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:25:41 GMT

I just use Opensuse to do my work, it updates, patches etc automatically and does not reboot, thankfully since it runs several critical applications.

Now I have to use a windows 7 workstation for another customer, it is tragic this behavior of reboot is still required for a lot of patches. I thought this was a thing of the past.

Great explanation in the article though, I have now reconfigured and also move the windows thing to a virtual machine on my Linux box, much faster reboots ;)

re: Windows Update and Automatic Reboots

I hate whiners — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:01:41 GMT

Matt shut your automatic updates off....

Or...Postpone the update.

Or if all else fails go.... into Start>Administrative Tools>Services> Windows Update

Right Click and Click Stop. This will stop the update/reboot process.

re: Windows Update and Automatic Reboots

Matt Hawkins — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 06:49:34 GMT

Another days work ruined thanks to an unwanted reboot. Why don't you guys just come round to my house and delete my work directly? What a stupid feature.

re: Windows XP Service Pack 3 Now Available on Windows Update

Qaiss — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 14:26:21 GMT

windows update service pack 3 Thanks for that download service

re: Upcoming updates for Windows 7 RC

www.TheSeoLearn.com — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 08:38:07 GMT

<a href="http://www.TheSeoLearn.com">www.TheSeoLearn.com</a> Highly descriptive post, I enjoyed that bit. Will there be a part 2?

re: Enabling Microsoft Update to keep Office 2003, Office XP, and other Microsoft Products Secure and Up-To-Date

OzWaz — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 03:29:35 GMT

This link -go.microsoft.com/fwlink goes to a 'Windows Update' advice page.This is very confussing as you have stated that "window" updates are "microsoft' updates or are they now one and the same entity and this page's advice is now redundant ?

re: Enabling Microsoft Update to keep Office 2003, Office XP, and other Microsoft Products Secure and Up-To-Date

Disappointed — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 21:36:29 GMT

Wrong.. XP SP3, use link http://update.microsoft.com/

get bounced to support.microsoft.com/.../2497281 always.

re: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 available through Windows Update

Tas — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:35:43 GMT

i think it’s great how you can update to the latest service pack through windows

re: Update to Windows Update, WSUS Coming This Week

datenrettungfestplatte.de — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:22:22 GMT

windows xp was really one of the best operation systems