I HATE Windows updates!

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The number of times I'm playing a game, only for Windows (Vista) to restart my machine for an updated I hadn't been informed about...

I suspect it gives you the warning, but as you're in a game you don't see it, so it merily restarts after X mins!

Can you turn it off? So it only applies updates on startup/shutdown like any logical system would?
 
Go to control panel - System and security - windows update, then click on change settings in the left hand column, you can set it to download the updates but you can choose when to install them.
 
If you open Windows Update and go to 'Change Settings' you can set it pretty much any way you like, you can even set it to download only, and leave it up to you to install.

EDIT - beaten to it ^ ;)
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
Why don't you just change your settings?
It isn't difficult, it would have been quikcer than posting here.
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Because I wasn't aware you could :rolleyes:

Changed to let me choose... Really just want an option for "Download automatically and install on shutdown, NOT IN THE MIDDLE OF ME ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING WITHOUT A WARNING!!!!!"
 
This is off the top of my head:

Run gpedit.msc and under computer settings (I think) > Windows Components > Windows Update there should be a configurable option to "No auto-restart for logged in users". If you enable this setting, the shutdown warning shoud just stay there with no timer.

Again, this is from memory so if anyone could double check it would be useful.
 
NeilFawcett said:
Because I wasn't aware you could :rolleyes:

Changed to let me choose... Really just want an option for "Download automatically and install on shutdown, NOT IN THE MIDDLE OF ME ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING WITHOUT A WARNING!!!!!"
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If any updates have been auto downloaded, then when you go to shutdown you will get an extra option to "Install updates and shutdown" (been there since XP days).
 
Typical.
Poor user slating something they don't know how to operate properly.

Change your options & control what your PC does Yourself.
 
malc30 said:
Typical.
Poor user slating something they don't know how to operate properly.

Change your options & control what your PC does Yourself.
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Before you get carried away patting yourself on the back for smart aleck comments... Explain to me how it makes any sense at all for my machine's default behaviour to be in effect to shutdown in the middle of me doing something, without a single warning to me?

Surely the default setting should be, install updates on next startup? How would that make things anything other than better?

Infact, I'm not even sure that option is even available? Is it?


So do you not think, just maybe, there's a valid criticism in my point?
 
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The Default setting Has to be as it is because Users like you want to plug & play Safely.
The updates could be a Security update & whilst you happily surf in ignorance the latest Worm is chewing your HD.
I would suppose over time MS are like me & expect people to treat Systems like the Washing machine they purchased last year rather than actually learning how to operate it properly.

Personally I am not prepared to help people who won't help themselves.
 
malc30 said:
The Default setting Has to be as it is because Users like you want to plug & play Safely.
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No, users like me, want updates, and I'd happily wait till shutdown or restart to apply them. Personally I don't want the machine to shutdown in the middle of me doing something.

Seems the BEST time to apply an update is at startup...


Personally I am not prepared to help people who won't help themselves.
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Umm... Odd!

Maybe you need to apply that 'good nature update' now, rather than waiting till you shutdown? Or at least do a defrag, you seem a little fragmented.
 
It is slightly annoying to have Windows reboot on you after an update - the Group Policy/Registry tweaks are a god-send. I am surprised you had no idea though - you usually get a little nagging box on the lower-right, and it has usually popped up while I have been gaming.

Still, all sorted now.

As for malc, I think he is working off some dodgy 3rd-party drivers. I am not even sure if they're signed by MS.
 
SiriusB said:
It is slightly annoying to have Windows reboot on you after an update - the Group Policy/Registry tweaks are a god-send. I am surprised you had no idea though - you usually get a little nagging box on the lower-right, and it has usually popped up while I have been gaming.
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It's happened to me before a couple of times, and last night I was in a REALLY good Left 4 Dead 2 game, just getting to a really good moment, and then, shutdown/reboot :rolleyes: Hence my tantrum post!
 
Theres something to be said for checking for updates manually. Not least because of Microsoft's policy of occasionally destroying installations with ropey updates.
 
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