Microsoft overstepping their boundaries

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Originally posted by: theflyingpig

Originally posted by: peritusONE

Originally posted by: theflyingpig

Originally posted by: peritusONE
Oh noes!!!! Your computer is doing what you've set it to do!!!!

Not sure how you can get pissed at Microsoft when you didn't RTFM.

I'm quoting this again so everyone can see just how stupid you are.

Thanks. I'm surprised you didn't call me a fatty while you were at it.

If I knew you were fat I definitely would have. I'll have to note this down for future reference.

Well, I never said I was fat, but whatever makes you sleep better at night.

 

[theflyingpig]

Originally posted by: peritusONE

Originally posted by: theflyingpig

Originally posted by: peritusONE

Originally posted by: theflyingpig

Originally posted by: peritusONE
Oh noes!!!! Your computer is doing what you've set it to do!!!!

Not sure how you can get pissed at Microsoft when you didn't RTFM.

I'm quoting this again so everyone can see just how stupid you are.

Thanks. I'm surprised you didn't call me a fatty while you were at it.

If I knew you were fat I definitely would have. I'll have to note this down for future reference.

Well, I never said I was fat, but whatever makes you sleep better at night.

oh

 

[blurredvision]

Originally posted by: theflyingpig

Originally posted by: peritusONE
Well, I never said I was fat, but whatever makes you sleep better at night.

oh

 

[ivan2]

Originally posted by: orakle
How to fix this:

1. Start > Run > gpedit.msc
2. Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update
3. Double click on "No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations"
4. Select Enabled and then press OK
5. Profit

There are also some settings in there about how often it should check for updates, how often it should nag you to reboot, etc.

woot, ty. /thread

 

[SuperSix]

There's a registry hack you can do to stop that. Do some research.

 

[soccerballtux]

Originally posted by: badkarma1399
Vista is way better at this than XP. Vista at least lets you set the time for the next pop up. 4 hours max isn't bad at all. XP is way worse. It just pops up constantly every 15 minutes no matter what.

if you read my post, vista is the first one that did it to me.

 

[soccerballtux]

Originally posted by: LtPage1
Why didn't you just click "Reboot Later"? And then restarted when you had an extra minute?

cause it prompts you every 10 minutes.

 

[soccerballtux]

Originally posted by: ivan2

Originally posted by: orakle
How to fix this:

1. Start > Run > gpedit.msc
2. Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update
3. Double click on "No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations"
4. Select Enabled and then press OK
5. Profit

There are also some settings in there about how often it should check for updates, how often it should nag you to reboot, etc.

woot, ty. /thread

Ya thanks orakle.

 

[TheVrolok]

I have never had this problem. Simply set up the auto-update options when you install Windows and go from there? Windows has never forced me to restart when I didn't want to .. I don't get all the angst?

 

[spaceman]

i'd say its more like half stepping.

 

[vshah]

FYI, if you get caught with your pants down and your comp tells you it is shutting down in 5 mins. open a command prompt and type "shutdown -a" (no quotes) and it will kill the shutdown timer.

 

[pontifex]

uh...doesn't it only do this if you have automatically download and install update set?

why not just set it to automatically download but let me choose when to install them?

seems like a pretty simple fucking fix...

 

[sao123]

for the computer impaired... type this at a command prompt.

shutdown.exe -a

 

[indamixx99]

I've had vista do that to me a few times while downloading torrents overnight. I wake up in the morning and check to see if my download is complete only to find that my computer rebooted itself 1 hour into the download. 🙁 I've turned autoupdate off since...

 

[soydios]

well then go in and turn off automatic updates. you can update manually, y'know.

sheesh.

 

[PieIsAwesome]

This is why I have auto-updates disabled. I don't like my computer doing things I don't tell it to do.

 

[Fritzo]

People like you are the cause of worm outbreaks.

"I'll update when I feel like it."

News flash: New security flaw in Windows allows for remote file execution.

"Crap, I didn't see that update that fixed that!"

Why wouldn't you want to update automatically? You on dialup or something?

 

[Leros]

It keeps all the computer illiterate people updated which helps prevents worm outbreaks and bot-nets. Its a bit inconvenient, but its needed for the greater good of the internet.

 

[nerp]

Originally posted by: Leros
It keeps all the computer illiterate people updated which helps prevents worm outbreaks and bot-nets. Its a bit inconvenient, but its needed for the greater good of the internet.

Ayup. I'm willing to see a few thousand knitting club and lost turtle flyers be lost every week for just a few less spam drones.

 

[thescreensavers]

Windows 7 ftw

 

[Jabbernyx]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
It's the reason I don't bother with updates. I have a router, firewall, and have protection at the port level. 0 issues since 2000 (when we got our first computer).

I still like to keep mine updated, but I compromise. Restore a backup image every couple of weeks, update (AV, spybot, etc.), reimage.

 

[Colt45]

real OSes don't need rebooting after every shitty little update 😉

 

[IronWing]

This has never been an issue on my home computer. I can just hide the window.

At work, the network nazis pull this crap all the time. It wouldn't be a big deal except that due to a bizarro corporate directory structure every desktop machine has to talk to multiple servers in various cities in order to bootup and allow login. When all the client machines are trying to do this at the same time it can take 45 minutes to log back in.

 

[thomsbrain]

That's one reason I never run updates unless I'm not doing anything else at the time and don't mind rebooting. Even if you choose to reboot at another time, it prompts you over and over again.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: orakle
How to fix this:

1. Start > Run > gpedit.msc
2. Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update
3. Double click on "No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations"
4. Select Enabled and then press OK
5. Profit

There are also some settings in there about how often it should check for updates, how often it should nag you to reboot, etc.

And just in case anyone wants pictures to go along with that