Windows Updates

[Walsingham]

I am so sick of Windows/Microsoft.

 

My PC keeps trying to shut down because Microsoft have decided in their lordly wisdom that I have to. Not when it's convenient for me, but RIGHT FETHING NOW. Why? Is running a windows update so important I would normally prioritise it above any and all other tasks I am currently doing? Is it only temporary blind insanity that makes me believe erroneously that I have better things to do, and that perhaps the shutting down can occur the next time I do so normally?

 

Dear Microsoft,

 

I am not an Interplay cow. I can think for myself. And right now i think I hate you and your disgusting product.

[Surreptishus]

Turn off auto updates and restart later.

[Walsingham]

Don't get me wrong. I want auto updates because it is more convenient to have it going on in the background. But I don't like the idea that I have to shut off my PC when they say so. It just goes to the heart of their whole mentality which is that their customers are cattle.

[Oerwinde]

Yeah the whole "Restart now" or "Remind me again in 10 minutes" thing is garbage. They need a "Don't bother me again" option.

[kalimeeri]

Turn off the 'auto-install' option of the automatic update process. It will still download the patches, but it will just tell you they're ready when you are. That way you can choose when--or if you want your system modified. Myself, I don't trust them enough to give them complete control.

[Petay]

What he said^ .

[Walsingham]

Thanks for the advice, gentlemen. However, if you will excuse me I intend to cotnue grumbling like an upset stomach for a wee while more.