I can’t be the only person who gets annoyed by Microsoft’s insistence on re-booting my machine without asking first. Who the hell do they think they are? I gave permission to install updates autonomously, but why does that include a re-boot? The proper procedure is to install the updates, then provide notice that a re-boot is now needed, and LET ME DECIDE WHEN TO DO IT.
Sometimes I leave my machine in the state I want to find it in come morning, and I’m getting sick and tired of waking up to browser crash notices and windows I’ve left linked for convenience being gone.
Guess I need to revoke some au-tho-ri-teh.
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Doesn’t your laptop have that setting for your Windows Updates? All other OS’s that I’ve been on have that setting so you can tell it to just let you know when updates are there and you can then install them when you want to. Mine on XP does and my mom’s on Vista does, dunno about Windows 7, but I would assume so. Where is it on yours? Heaven knows Spinny hehe, but it should be there in the setup
| February 1, 2010 @ 1:45 PM
Yeah; that was the au-tho-ri-teh I needed to revoke. I had no problem with it installing the updates, but as I complained that doesn’t extend to re-booting my machine as well. Fixed. Now it must wait for “Simon Says” before it can do anything.
| February 1, 2010 @ 5:14 PM