... A Windows Update appears to have rebooted my computer last night.

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EyeMWing

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Either that, or a program that was PRETENDING to be a Windows update when the machine came back up (the whole "Updates have been applied" thing)

Ad-Aware shows nothing.

And before you tell me to stop whining, I LOST SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF DATA.
 
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Happened to me yesterday too. Another fvcking annoyance is recently I've had this bar pop up and say my comp will reboot in 5 min related to a windows update. THere is NO way to close this bar. Even if you use task manager and kill the process it pops up 10 seconds later and the bar continues, so you're forced to reboot. Things like this make my love for microsoft turn into a seething hatred.
 
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EyeMWing

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Originally posted by: Skoorb
Happened to me yesterday too. Another fvcking annoyance is recently I've had this bar pop up and say my comp will reboot in 5 min related to a windows update. THere is NO way to close this bar. Even if you use task manager and kill the process it pops up 10 seconds later and the bar continues, so you're forced to reboot. Things like this make my love for microsoft turn into a seething hatred.
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I've seen that ONCE, in an enterprise situation, when the admins were forcing an update. Windows isn't supposed to do that sh!t unless Windows Server tells it to do that sh!t. So, apparently Microsoft now administers the world's largest domain.
 
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I have also seen it.....on my machine, but can't remember what the situation was exactly. I don't recall it being an update, more of a crash protection I think.
 
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Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Happened to me yesterday too. Another fvcking annoyance is recently I've had this bar pop up and say my comp will reboot in 5 min related to a windows update. THere is NO way to close this bar. Even if you use task manager and kill the process it pops up 10 seconds later and the bar continues, so you're forced to reboot. Things like this make my love for microsoft turn into a seething hatred.
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I've seen that ONCE, in an enterprise situation, when the admins were forcing an update. Windows isn't supposed to do that sh!t unless Windows Server tells it to do that sh!t. So, apparently Microsoft now administers the world's largest domain.
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That makes sense, because I was not on the company domain for a long while then when I went on it with my craptop is when this sh*te happened.

 
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yukichigai

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Go to the "run" box and type "shutdown -a". Aborts all impending reboots, theoretically.
 
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Calin

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<scary voice> It's midnight... Do you know what your software is doing? Muahahahaha
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J0hnny

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The same damn thing happened to my comp 2 nigts ago with the automatic updates.
 
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Why do you have Automatic Update turned on? What were you doing when the reboot happened?
 
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Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Either that, or a program that was PRETENDING to be a Windows update when the machine came back up (the whole "Updates have been applied" thing)

Ad-Aware shows nothing.

And before you tell me to stop whining, I LOST SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF DATA.
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You know dude this is one of the reasons usually I don't do updates (not talking virus definitions). It is eather a whole new package or nothing at all.

Btw sorry for your loss
 
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Originally posted by: aircooled
You can turn on "download updates automatically of but prompt for install".
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Yep. Your fault your system rebooted. Stop bitching about it now.
 
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Plasdom

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could have been a system failure that caused it to reboot (setting is under Startup and Recovery). Check your system logs
 
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flyboy84

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It was during the update for windows installer 3.1 I believe. It gave me 5 mins to reboot. Odd.
 
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Originally posted by: Rogue
Originally posted by: aircooled
You can turn on "download updates automatically of but prompt for install".
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Yep. Your fault your system rebooted. Stop bitching about it now.
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No, it's MS's fault it rebooted. It's our fault for not turning that on. If I stole your car and then I said "Hey you could have prevented it by sending me $100", then it's not your fault your car got stolen.
 
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