windows update forcing a reboot
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Can I stop WU from forcing a reboot if I drag the reboot now nag dialog off the edge of the screen while doing something I can't interrupt and then forget about it for a few days? Alternately can I change it to do something to make the coming forced reboot abundantly clear? It sent crash shutdown messages to open apps and while this time the only hit was my browser bringing up the crash recovery dialog when restarted I don't want to be in this situation with potentially unsaved data in an app that doesn't support autosave.
-- You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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Can I stop WU from forcing a reboot if I drag the reboot now nag dialog off the edge of the screen while doing something I can't interrupt and then forget about it for a few days? Alternately can I change it to do something to make the coming forced reboot abundantly clear? It sent crash shutdown messages to open apps and while this time the only hit was my browser bringing up the crash recovery dialog when restarted I don't want to be in this situation with potentially unsaved data in an app that doesn't support autosave.
-- You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
You could turn Windows Update off? That's what I do.. For some reason whenever it does a Windows Update it messes up Vista so that I have to repair it using the installation CD... :sigh: The reason Windows Update has to reboot is to update system files which it cant do whilst these files are in use by Windows.. So until you reboot, Windows hasn't actually been updated.. Microsoft offering brilliant software as usual... --PerspX
"Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine." - Bill Gates