Windows Update - destroying my life

Morlan

Morlan

Morlan

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Windows Updates itself automatically, we all know that. But it also takes control of the PC and executes a sneaky restart when your not around. I know it gives a prompt every ****** few minutes - I'm too busy for a restart. If I say NO 10 times STOP ASKING ME.

Three times now I have fallen victim to data loss because of Microsoft's sneaky and vicious restart policy.

I had Photoshop open with about 10 nicely processed images - 4 hours work. Went off for lunch and came back to discover the login screen. Power cut? No, I have ACP. Windows Update? Yes :mad: It forced Photoshop, and every other program running to shutdown.

And now it has done it again. I was doing some research with about 25 tabbed webpages open. Went off to speak to my sister for 5 minutes and when I cam back. Login screen. ******* ridiculous. :mad: :mad:

I have now learned my lesson and turned off Auto Updates permanently.

AHHHHHHH. SO much work lost. **** **** ****
 
tbh when im wokring i save every 20 mintues or so, your fault for not saving work after 4 hours of hard work

also FF has an option of that when it is closed down it asks if you want to load what you were last looking at so no loss there aswell
 
Yeah, just choose, "Notify me when there are updates to download" then you can download and install them at leisure.

If you didn't save your work before going to lunch.. well, that’s a rookie mistake tbh.

At least you won't do it again in a hurry ;), just think learning curve..
 
I can't say that I've ever had it happen to me. I've only ever had "To finish installing these updates, please restart" (or something similar) and it lets you choose when to restart...
 
To stop the automatic restart just use gpedit.msc and tell it not too.

gpedit_msc_automatic_update.jpg


Job done!
 
What is XP Home ? :confused:

Open Regedit and create a new dword value called NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers in HKLM\SOFTWARE
\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU and set it to a value of 1.

This will now disable the countdown timer as long as somebody is logged in to your system. If nobody is logged in, the computer will still restart immediately.
 
addy_010 said:
tbh when im wokring i save every 20 mintues or so, your fault for not saving work after 4 hours of hard work
Click to expand...

wish it was as simple as that telling people at work when they complain that they have lost a hours worth of work by directly saving onto a FLOPPY DISK, its always the Support Guys fault :mad:
 
It did it once to me because I forgot to set auto update to notify. Soon fixed that. :)

I'd much rather be able to see what software gets installed on my system - especially with a few recent updates doing more harm than good.
 
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