Re: The nasty software booted on me!

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From: DILIP (dilipr_at_#*&!%l.com)
Date: 12/01/04


Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 18:09:38 +0530

Maybe your computer crashed and rebooted itself - Power surge, RAM etc could
cause it.

Anyway, what were the after effects of this boot?

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"Don Wiss" <donwiss@no_spam.com> wrote in message 
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> So I upgraded to SP2. Then I made sure I had the latest updates. Then
> yesterday a new update came in. I installed it, but didn't want to boot my
> machine. A new nag message kept popping up reminding me that I had to boot
> to complete the update. I kept turning it off. I went to bed. I awoke and
> found that Windows had taken it upon itself to boot my machine. How
> absolutely nasty can you be!!
>
> Don <donwiss at panix.com>. 


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