Comments on: Damn You Windows Automatic Update!

By: Saman

Saman — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:05:26 +0000

I’m going to kill you.

By: Armen

Armen — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:19:22 +0000

Man…I’m sitting here right now as I read this post, and XP is keeps attempting to restart every 10 minutes. Grrr….

By: Melanie

Melanie — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:09:55 +0000

That is so annoying…sympathy!!!

By: AngryNetworker

AngryNetworker — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 00:41:57 +0000

you sir
are an idiot

By: Ajith

Ajith — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:17:19 +0000

Is a Netscape on a Mac better than an Opera on a Windows

By: Gary Lee

Gary Lee — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:22:19 +0000

and this is why i switched to Macs!

By: Saman

Saman — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:23:15 +0000

That pisses me off too!

By: Saman

Saman — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:21:11 +0000

I was thinking that there had to be a Registry Hack for this, I’ll have to look into it!

By: Bobs

Bobs — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:32:59 +0000

If you do find out how - which I’m sure it may end up being a Regedit, you should post about it - I’m sure many would be interested in it. I know that the Active Directory settings by creating a Group Policy give me a few more options than the normal screen….

In Group Policy it is called:
“No auto-restart for scheduled Automatic Updates installations”

There has to be a way to activate that at the local level.

By: Bobs

Bobs — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:24:00 +0000

“You know that the advanced settings are not always in the GUI grasshopper.”

I can control things at the Domain Level for all the PCs on my domain. Its real easy when you get into the Advanced Active Directory settings. Since there are controls for it, I’m sure there is some back door way into all of the settings like that at the Local Computer level.

By: Natron

Natron — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:50:45 +0000

I use to have a computer that would lock up if left alone from more that 10 minutes. Know the pain.

Even if you do say no to the restart, windows will keep asking you until you do restart.

By: Jon Lee

Jon Lee — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:21:51 +0000

Aw bad luck.
I keep updates on download but not install for that very reason.

By: Ajith

Ajith — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:19:07 +0000

Hi Smanathon(g) , I can’t help but laugh.. . Thats pretty funny. (of course when it happens to others - not me ). Be care ful afterwards

By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:03:07 +0000

Yup, I know the feeling!

I leave my computer on all night to download podcasts. Noting pisses me off more than going to retrieve my iPod and finding my PC on the login screen!!!

By: lyndonmaxewell

lyndonmaxewell — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:10:13 +0000

Wow! That’s definitely tough luck for you!

By: My New Choice

My New Choice — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 05:08:48 +0000

Ouch, that sucks. I remember having a few instances a few years back when I tried some video editing where I had problems like a complete freeze after hours of rendering.

I’ve currently got my machine to auto update but I have it set for 3am.

By: Saman

Saman — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 05:00:11 +0000

There aren’t any advanced settings!

By: David

David — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 04:55:52 +0000

Oh, this was back in the day, when I was running Windows 95 and some other ancient Word version…now I’m much more up-to-date..so loosing essays and papers isn’t a problem now.

By: Bobs

Bobs — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 04:51:36 +0000

Hey David,
What Word Processor are you using? I know most now have an “Auto-Save” feature built into them that auto saves the files at a chosen duration. I know a lot of college students live and die by this setting.

By: David

David — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 04:49:11 +0000

Oh..that sucks!!! I’ve lost hours and hours of work on papers and stuff for similar things, one being an automatic virus check, that started, then managed to freeze my computer, while I was writing a 15 page paper…and not saving regularly