Have you ever noticed that sometimes your computer gives you a message after it installs automatic updates and then automatically shuts down while you're not looking? This happens to me at work all the time, and actually, happened this afternoon.
The message I received after I rebooted was, "Your computer has installed very important updates."
Ok.... My question is, when will I see a message stating, "Your computer has installed completely unimportant and useless updates that will only slow down your system and crash your hard drive"? Because sometimes...that's closer to the truth.
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I hate those automatic updates. It really drives me crazy when I keep telling the computer to "restart later" and then it decides to go ahead and restart immediately. Irritating.
Over the last few months, I have received several updates that look mostly identical to me.
I think that maybe Microsoft is just trying to make sure that we don't forget about them, as if we'd ever have the chance.
The updates annoy me too, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to side with Microsoft here. (People who know me can take a moment to pick their jaws up off the floor now.) The ones that are automatically installed on your computer are fixes for bugs that aren't obvious when you run programs, but provide openings for your computer to be attacked over the network. In most cases, instructions for attacks using these bugs are already posted publicly by the time Microsoft releases the fix. The way they're packaged and delivered, they do look pretty identical: "security update for Microsoft Windows KBxxxxxx". But they really do address different bugs. If you're interested in the details for a given update, you can go to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/xxxxxx, where xxxxxx is replaced by the six-digit number in the update.
You can make Windows Update install the updates when you choose, rather than automatically: Press Start, select Control Panel, and choose Automatic Updates. Click the dot next to "Download updates for me, but let me choose when to install them." Then, when new updates are available, you'll see a balloon saying "updates are ready to be installed." When you're ready, you can click on the balloon to install them.
Hope this helps alleviate some frustration...
Yeah, that only works in computer fantasy land, W. My home computer is set up to only download when I choose, and it has still shut down on me without my permission a few times. A computer should never shut down unless the user tells it to, especially when the "update" pop-up tells you that you can keep working while the install runs in the background.
I'm afraid I just can't get on the Microsoft bandwagon on this issue. It is really irritating!
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