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    Simon P Stevens
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    I just did a .net 4 install on a fresh Windows 7 PC and at the end it just said 'finished' with no request for a restart. I was quite impressed, obviously all those previous .net installs that required restarts must really have been because something was running that was locking a file. Then about 30 seconds later, pop, "To complete this install you must restart your PC". Waiting those 30 seconds was just to tease me, and to think they nearly had me praising them. :laugh:

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      I just did a .net 4 install on a fresh Windows 7 PC and at the end it just said 'finished' with no request for a restart. I was quite impressed, obviously all those previous .net installs that required restarts must really have been because something was running that was locking a file. Then about 30 seconds later, pop, "To complete this install you must restart your PC". Waiting those 30 seconds was just to tease me, and to think they nearly had me praising them. :laugh:

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      OriginalGriff
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      Only the one though - that's an improvement. Not much of an improvement. But it's there. The ones that wind me up are the auto-update "You must restart to complete, restart now?" that pop up every bloody five minutes when I'm madly typing and not looking the screen. Oh, look, space bar! Restart! :mad:

      Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

      "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
      "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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        I just did a .net 4 install on a fresh Windows 7 PC and at the end it just said 'finished' with no request for a restart. I was quite impressed, obviously all those previous .net installs that required restarts must really have been because something was running that was locking a file. Then about 30 seconds later, pop, "To complete this install you must restart your PC". Waiting those 30 seconds was just to tease me, and to think they nearly had me praising them. :laugh:

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        Abhinav S
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        Its not too bad. I think you can actually minimize that window and continue working. It actually is better than "your system will restart in 30 seconds". Giving you enough time to understand you will lose 2 hours of unsaved work but not giving you time to save anything.

        The funniest thing about this particular signature is that by the time you realise it doesn't say anything it's too late to stop reading it.

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          Only the one though - that's an improvement. Not much of an improvement. But it's there. The ones that wind me up are the auto-update "You must restart to complete, restart now?" that pop up every bloody five minutes when I'm madly typing and not looking the screen. Oh, look, space bar! Restart! :mad:

          Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

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          Simon P Stevens
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          OriginalGriff wrote:

          auto-update "You must restart to complete, restart now?" that pop up every bloody five minutes

          It's better in Win7, it has the option to postpone it for 4 hours. Although yesterday I actually managed to click the restart button with my mouse when I meant postpone while not quite concentrating. That was rather annoying.

          Simon [Need a software dev?]

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            Only the one though - that's an improvement. Not much of an improvement. But it's there. The ones that wind me up are the auto-update "You must restart to complete, restart now?" that pop up every bloody five minutes when I'm madly typing and not looking the screen. Oh, look, space bar! Restart! :mad:

            Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

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            Just turn it off and update manually at the end of the day..

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              Its not too bad. I think you can actually minimize that window and continue working. It actually is better than "your system will restart in 30 seconds". Giving you enough time to understand you will lose 2 hours of unsaved work but not giving you time to save anything.

              The funniest thing about this particular signature is that by the time you realise it doesn't say anything it's too late to stop reading it.

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              Vikram A Punathambekar
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              Abhinav S wrote:

              Its not too bad. I think you can actually minimize that window and continue working.
              It actually is better than "your system will restart in 30 seconds". Giving you enough time to understand you will lose 2 hours of unsaved work but not giving you time to save anything.

              Save early, save often :-D

              Cheers, विक्रम (Have gone past my troika - 4 CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:

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                I just did a .net 4 install on a fresh Windows 7 PC and at the end it just said 'finished' with no request for a restart. I was quite impressed, obviously all those previous .net installs that required restarts must really have been because something was running that was locking a file. Then about 30 seconds later, pop, "To complete this install you must restart your PC". Waiting those 30 seconds was just to tease me, and to think they nearly had me praising them. :laugh:

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                DaveAuld
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                We had a big restart last night. Some bugger performing system updates on the control system of our neighbouring platform, resulting in a 'you don't really need power do you?' moment! It went dark and quiet very quickly last night! :wtf:

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                  Just turn it off and update manually at the end of the day..

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                  OriginalGriff
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                  Arggh! Nooooo! That means using IE... X|

                  Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

                  "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                  "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                    Arggh! Nooooo! That means using IE... X|

                    Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

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                    Nithin Sundar
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                    That's quite the stress "booster". Forced to use IE to update Windows when you are better off using others.

                    My Blog *cough* My Achievements: *cough* * Posted 25,000th message in GIT O_O * Official supporter of the "thatraja's GIT Meet Sponsor Foundation" :D What you do, when you don't know what to do is what you do when you don't want to do what you do.

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                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                      Only the one though - that's an improvement. Not much of an improvement. But it's there. The ones that wind me up are the auto-update "You must restart to complete, restart now?" that pop up every bloody five minutes when I'm madly typing and not looking the screen. Oh, look, space bar! Restart! :mad:

                      Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

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                      Nithin Sundar
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                      That "feature" is so annoying that you eventually end up restarting the system.

                      My Blog *cough* My Achievements: *cough* * Posted 25,000th message in GIT O_O * Official supporter of the "thatraja's GIT Meet Sponsor Foundation" :D What you do, when you don't know what to do is what you do when you don't want to do what you do.

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                        Its not too bad. I think you can actually minimize that window and continue working. It actually is better than "your system will restart in 30 seconds". Giving you enough time to understand you will lose 2 hours of unsaved work but not giving you time to save anything.

                        The funniest thing about this particular signature is that by the time you realise it doesn't say anything it's too late to stop reading it.

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                        Nithin Sundar
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                        What's funny is that when you install those Windows Updates, it's very keen to point out "HAY I'll be here hiding in your system tray and please please PLEASE remember that you can still continue working! And oh don't forget that when I finish, it doesn't matter if you saved your work or not. Yours truly, Your neighborhood Windows Annoyance™."

                        My Blog *cough* My Achievements: *cough* * Posted 25,000th message in GIT O_O * Official supporter of the "thatraja's GIT Meet Sponsor Foundation" :D What you do, when you don't know what to do is what you do when you don't want to do what you do.

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                        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                          Only the one though - that's an improvement. Not much of an improvement. But it's there. The ones that wind me up are the auto-update "You must restart to complete, restart now?" that pop up every bloody five minutes when I'm madly typing and not looking the screen. Oh, look, space bar! Restart! :mad:

                          Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

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                          Mark_Wallace
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                          OriginalGriff wrote:

                          The ones that wind me up are the auto-update "You must restart to complete, restart now?" that pop up every bloody five minutes when I'm madly typing and not looking the screen.

                          I just leave them open and move them off-screen. For days at a time, sometimes (which has the added bonus of suppressing further update notifications).

                          I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                            I just did a .net 4 install on a fresh Windows 7 PC and at the end it just said 'finished' with no request for a restart. I was quite impressed, obviously all those previous .net installs that required restarts must really have been because something was running that was locking a file. Then about 30 seconds later, pop, "To complete this install you must restart your PC". Waiting those 30 seconds was just to tease me, and to think they nearly had me praising them. :laugh:

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                            Daniel Grunwald
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                            I think .NET 4.0 does not require a restart if you install on a fresh WinXP system. The restart seems to be necessary only when it has to update an existing .NET 2.0 installation - .NET 4.0 is patching .NET 2.0 to allow for in-process side-by-side execution.

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                              That "feature" is so annoying that you eventually end up restarting the system.

                              My Blog *cough* My Achievements: *cough* * Posted 25,000th message in GIT O_O * Official supporter of the "thatraja's GIT Meet Sponsor Foundation" :D What you do, when you don't know what to do is what you do when you don't want to do what you do.

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                              OriginalGriff
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                              Or hitting it with a very large hammer, yes.

                              Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

                              "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                              "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                              • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                Or hitting it with a very large hammer, yes.

                                Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

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                                Nithin Sundar
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                                Best solution ever. Period. Comma. Backspace.

                                My Blog *cough* My Achievements: *cough* * Posted 25,000th message in GIT O_O * Official supporter of the "thatraja's GIT Meet Sponsor Foundation" :D What you do, when you don't know what to do is what you do when you don't want to do what you do.

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