Re: Microsoft deliberately destroyed 10 hours of work
- From: "Pop`" <nodoby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:52:40 -0400
Richard Urban wrote:
Really?
I have automatic updates set to on. Over the past year I have
received all of them. Yet I always had the message that a reboot was
necessary to complete the update.
I would certainly like to run into the incident you describe so I can
research it.
"Tom Willett" <tompepper@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Richard: We have several computers with Automatic Update, and many
times we
come in and there is a message stating that certain updates required
a reboot, and that AU had done the reboot.
Tom
"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If you were totally up-to-date on your patches prior to this
incident, it wasn't Microsoft.
They have not issued any new patches since September 12. And, I
have never seen a Microsoft patch that has rebooted a computer
automatically. That would just be foolish.
--
Regards,
Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)
Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
"Lorne" <Lorne_Anderson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Early this morning I set my laptop going on a 10 hour job that
manipulates large video files.
I have just checked it thinking it was about to finish and found a
message, I presume from Microsoft, saying that an update had
automatically restarted the computer. How can Microsoft be so
stupid as to write software that restarts a computer without user
permission when it is in the middle of running a program?
The result is I have to redo 10 hours of work (the program can't
restart and use the partially processed files I had on the disk,
so I had to delete everything and start from scratch). This is
totally unnecessary, completely stupid, and completely insensitive
to users. Surely it is simple to write code that asks if it is OK
to restart and to wait for a user response before doing anything. If
there is something about this update that needs an immediate
restart then there should be a warning BEFORE it is installed so
it does not get installed until the user has said OK and knows
that a restart will follow. How do I make sure this message gets to
somebody at Microsoft who
should care about their customers and can do something to prevent
this stupidity being repeated?
It's possible to set it for forced reboot after installs of updates.
Pop`
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