Stupid Windows Update

One thing about XP that drives me nuts: after Windows downloads an update you get a dialog saying "Your computer needs to be restarted for the updates to take effect. Windows will restart your computer automatically in..."

Anyway, what if I am working on something important and don't want to restart? I can press "Restart Later" but Windows will keep reminding me, again and again.

Is this fixed in Vista?

Nope, but you get to pick from a drop down of when later, 10 mintes up to 4 hours.

there is a reg hack out there that stops it from forcing you to reboot

google it

Thanks for the answers.

Being able to postpone the restart for a few hours is already much better than the current behavior in XP. It would be even nicer if one could schedule the restart at a specific time, e.g. 3:00 am.

This is unlikely to be "fixed" - this was done so Microsoft could force people to install new patches, especially security patches. Otherwise they download the update, click "Restart Later" and then not reboot for weeks, leaving their computer vulnerable. Then they blame Microsoft for not patching exploits.

Sometimes it's still funnier… it's Tuesday morning, so Windows install the latest patches. It will start annoying you about: 'I need to restart'. You keep saying no because you are busy.

Two hours later you can relax a bit, so you go for a coffee. You found people over there and chat a little with them, so 30 minutes later you are back on your desk just to discover Windows has decided by its own will it was a good time to reboot (because you didn't say no the last time it asked)… of course, you didn't save that document.

Why kind of person leaves a disk for 30 minutes with an unsaved document and (b) doesn't turn on the Auto-Save feature of the document editor or, worse, turns it off and then complains about losing his unsaved document because he left his disk for 30 minutes?

die-Sel wrote:

there is a reg hack out there that stops it from forcing you to reboot

google it

JChung2006 wrote:

Why kind of person leaves a disk for 30 minutes with an unsaved document and (b) doesn't turn on the Auto-Save feature of the document editor or, worse, turns it off and then complains about losing his unsaved document because he left his disk for 30 minutes?

infinitereality wrote:

It would be even nicer if one could schedule the restart at a specific time, e.g. 3:00 am.

The biggest thing that annoys me about Windows Update in Vista, is that it wakes my laptop up from hibernate to do the updates. My laptop isn't plugged in during these times, so it drains the battery. They need to make it so it doesn't wake up the laptop when it's only on battery. I'd also like to know how Vista is even loading the computer back up from hibernate, I thought the computer is completely off.

ZippyV wrote:



infinitereality wrote: It would be even nicer if one could schedule the restart at a specific time, e.g. 3:00 am.

How about setting Automatic Updates @ 3 am?

stevo_ wrote:



JChung2006 wrote: Why kind of person leaves a disk for 30 minutes with an unsaved document and (b) doesn't turn on the Auto-Save feature of the document editor or, worse, turns it off and then complains about losing his unsaved document because he left his disk for 30 minutes?

Pretty sure Vista's count down is about 5 minutes, stupid though it is to leave your PC without saving it, I went to make a coffee last week, came back and Vista had restarted and lost all my IE tabs I had open..

It's a 5 minute cycle to prompt the user to reboot their system after a critical system update?  Even if you click no, I'm going to reboot later?  Wow, that does suck.

JChung2006 wrote:

Why kind of person leaves a disk for 30 minutes with an unsaved document and (b) doesn't turn on the Auto-Save feature of the document editor or, worse, turns it off and then complains about losing his unsaved document because he left his disk for 30 minutes?

infinitereality wrote:

One thing about XP that drives me nuts: after Windows downloads an update you get a dialog saying "Your computer needs to be restarted for the updates to take effect. Windows will restart your computer automatically in..."

Anyway, what if I am working on something important and don't want to restart? I can press "Restart Later" but Windows will keep reminding me, again and again.

Is this fixed in Vista?

BlackTiger wrote:

I remember one forgoten promise regarding Vista. There was a "feature" to restart PC without closing running apps. Some kind of "saving app state" like hibernation.

But MS not delivered that promise. Nothing new...