Update required an automatic restart of your computer.

[GasX]

I friggin hate the automatic restarts.

I am in the midst of a job search and after surfing job sites all morning I had about 12 browser windows open for positions to apply to this afternoon. I get back from picking my son up from school and lo and behold the computer rebooted. Now I have to repeat this morning's efforts... :|

If I was using my desktop, Firefox would have allowed me to restore the session. This crappy laptop in my home office has no such feature. :|

 

[oogabooga]

I just bookmark anything I find interesting, you never know what'll happen when you step away from the computer.

You're job searching on a work laptop? Or your desktop isn't in your office?

 

[effowe]

Heh, this actually just happened to my buddy the other night. He was encoding/burning multiple AVI's (readr0n) onto a dual layer disc. It had taken over 3 hours to get to 75% when he went to bed. He woke up in the morning and his computer had automatically updated/rebooted leaving him with a nice expensive coaster. Solution: Turn off automatic updates.

 

[KK]

tell it that you will decide on when to install them.

 

[SoulAssassin]

Start/Control Panel/Automatic Updates/automatically download and install updates at xx:xx.

 

[maxster]

Originally posted by: effowe
Heh, this actually just happened to my buddy the other night. He was encoding/burning multiple AVI's (readr0n) onto a dual layer disc. It had taken over 3 hours to get to 75% when he went to bed. He woke up in the morning and his computer had automatically updated/rebooted leaving him with a nice expensive coaster. Solution: Turn off automatic updates.

Too complicated a solution for some to understand.

 

[Quasmo]

Originally posted by: effowe
Heh, this actually just happened to my buddy the other night. He was encoding/burning multiple AVI's (readr0n) onto a dual layer disc. It had taken over 3 hours to get to 75% when he went to bed. He woke up in the morning and his computer had automatically updated/rebooted leaving him with a nice expensive coaster. Solution: Turn off automatic updates.

Who the hell encodes porn to watch it on their TV?

 

[sutahz]

Automatic Updates|Notify me but don't automatically download or install them.
Take control of your PC.

 

[hdeck]

Originally posted by: Quasmo

Originally posted by: effowe
Heh, this actually just happened to my buddy the other night. He was encoding/burning multiple AVI's (readr0n) onto a dual layer disc. It had taken over 3 hours to get to 75% when he went to bed. He woke up in the morning and his computer had automatically updated/rebooted leaving him with a nice expensive coaster. Solution: Turn off automatic updates.

Who the hell encodes porn to watch it on their TV?

yeah seriously i just stream it to my xbox 360

 

[Specop 007]

Originally posted by: Quasmo

Originally posted by: effowe
Heh, this actually just happened to my buddy the other night. He was encoding/burning multiple AVI's (readr0n) onto a dual layer disc. It had taken over 3 hours to get to 75% when he went to bed. He woke up in the morning and his computer had automatically updated/rebooted leaving him with a nice expensive coaster. Solution: Turn off automatic updates.

Who the hell encodes porn to watch it on their TV?

College kids who cant (or wont) afford premium cable or PPV?

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: SoulAssassin
Start/Control Panel/Automatic Updates/automatically download and install updates at xx:xx.

Thank you. Albeit a bit late this time around...

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Originally posted by: Quasmo

Originally posted by: effowe
Heh, this actually just happened to my buddy the other night. He was encoding/burning multiple AVI's (readr0n) onto a dual layer disc. It had taken over 3 hours to get to 75% when he went to bed. He woke up in the morning and his computer had automatically updated/rebooted leaving him with a nice expensive coaster. Solution: Turn off automatic updates.

Who the hell encodes porn to watch it on their TV?

Maybe his SO and him wanted to watch it together.

On ATOT and having an SO is a rarity, but wanting to watch pr0n together on top of that is unlikely . So I want to know why would he burn it to an expensive DL disc?

 

[KLin]

Are you using Vista? I just had the windows update start without notifying me, and it said it would reboot within 5 minutes. The only reason I knew something was going on because the hard drive was working pretty hard. Took 30 minutes for it to complete :|

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: oogabooga
You're job searching on a work laptop? Or your desktop isn't in your office?

We have 2 home offices. My uber self built desktop is in the main home office which my wife uses during the day for her job. The other home office is in a guest bedroom and I am using an old crappy laptop in there.

 

[QueBert]

almost as annoying, If you click the later button when it says it's going to reboot unless you click it. It will pop up back 30 minutes later. How freakin hard would it be for MS to make the later button = when you decide to reboot. I got that stupid box when I was encoding a scene in Bryce, I was about 8 hours into a 10 hour job and tired but I stayed up for 2 hours clicking the "later" button every time it said it was going to reboot.

 

[Quasmo]

Originally posted by: Specop 007

Originally posted by: Quasmo

Originally posted by: effowe
Heh, this actually just happened to my buddy the other night. He was encoding/burning multiple AVI's (readr0n) onto a dual layer disc. It had taken over 3 hours to get to 75% when he went to bed. He woke up in the morning and his computer had automatically updated/rebooted leaving him with a nice expensive coaster. Solution: Turn off automatic updates.

Who the hell encodes porn to watch it on their TV?

College kids who cant (or wont) afford premium cable or PPV?

Can't watch it on his computer? If he can afford a DL disc for porn, he probably has a nice monitor.

 

[slayer202]

lol this happened to me last night, although I didn't have anything too important open

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: QueBert
almost as annoying, If you click the later button when it says it's going to reboot unless you click it. It will pop up back 30 minutes later. How freakin hard would it be for MS to make the later button = when you decide to reboot. I got that stupid box when I was encoding a scene in Bryce, I was about 8 hours into a 10 hour job and tired but I stayed up for 2 hours clicking the "later" button every time it said it was going to reboot.

To be honest, I had clicked that several times. I was 1. hoping to get back before the next iteration and 2. confused IE and Firefox with respect to the restore function.... :-\

 

[isekii]

Originally posted by: Quasmo

Originally posted by: Specop 007

Originally posted by: Quasmo

Originally posted by: effowe
Heh, this actually just happened to my buddy the other night. He was encoding/burning multiple AVI's (readr0n) onto a dual layer disc. It had taken over 3 hours to get to 75% when he went to bed. He woke up in the morning and his computer had automatically updated/rebooted leaving him with a nice expensive coaster. Solution: Turn off automatic updates.

Who the hell encodes porn to watch it on their TV?

College kids who cant (or wont) afford premium cable or PPV?

Can't watch it on his computer? If he can afford a DL disc for porn, he probably has a nice monitor.

that or just get a standalone divx player

 

[Aikouka]

I lost a bunch of firefox tabs when it decided that crashing was the cool thing to do and session manager... pfft, it loaded up some session from 2 months ago.

 

[Kelemvor]

I always have it set to downlaod and then tell me so I can pick when to install.

And why not just put FF on the laptop?

 

[effowe]

Originally posted by: Specop 007

Originally posted by: Quasmo

Originally posted by: effowe
Heh, this actually just happened to my buddy the other night. He was encoding/burning multiple AVI's (readr0n) onto a dual layer disc. It had taken over 3 hours to get to 75% when he went to bed. He woke up in the morning and his computer had automatically updated/rebooted leaving him with a nice expensive coaster. Solution: Turn off automatic updates.

Who the hell encodes porn to watch it on their TV?

College kids who cant (or wont) afford premium cable or PPV?

This is exactly what I told him to do last night, let him borrow an extra nic card and a switch to get him going.

 

[effowe]

Originally posted by: Quasmo
Can't watch it on his computer? If he can afford a DL disc for porn, he probably has a nice monitor.

He has a pretty old computer with a 19" CRT monitor, his TV is a 50" widescreen Hi-Def.

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
I friggin hate the automatic restarts.

I am in the midst of a job search and after surfing job sites all morning I had about 12 browser windows open for positions to apply to this afternoon. I get back from picking my son up from school and lo and behold the computer rebooted. Now I have to repeat this morning's efforts... :|

If I was using my desktop, Firefox would have allowed me to restore the session. This crappy laptop in my home office has no such feature. :|

Firefox would have reopened all the sites.

 

[SoulAssassin]

Originally posted by: Mwilding

Originally posted by: SoulAssassin
Start/Control Panel/Automatic Updates/automatically download and install updates at xx:xx.

Thank you. Albeit a bit late this time around...

True, maybe next time you'll notice all of the warnings it pops up ahead of time or set it so it doesn't reboot in the middle of the day.

I wonder what the complaints would be like if there was a patch out there for a known vulnerability and you didn't install it then were compromised.