Re: Windows XP auto updates stinks!!

"home_user" <shoorazeel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:aybXg.1491$zy2.137@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Once the Windows XP auto-updates mechanism installs the updates on the system, a dialog keeps coming up - every few minutes - asking "Do you want to restart the PC".

The dialog has two buttons:
1) restart now (the default)
2) restart later

Of course, the genius who designed this annoying dialog made the "restart now" the default button. And because I have set the mouse pointer to automatically move to the default button in a dialog, the mouse pointer points to the "restart now" button. I was working on something important and then this STUPID dialog comes up and the mouse pointer is automatically on the "restart now" button. My mouse click was meant for a different application. However, this stupid dialog comes up and the "restart now" is pressed without giving me a chance to save any of my work or any of the web pages I had opened.

This has happened to me before. This system is not user friendly at all. Now I have turned OFF the stupid automatic updates. I hate it!!

And why does the reminder have to come up so often? If I said, "restart later", I am responsible for the consequences. I don't want to be interrupted or reminded every 5 minutes or so. This is a really terrible design!!!


is there any way to prevent Windows XP from continuing to shut down - so important work can be saved - once the shutdown process has started?


Thanks,
Joe.



I wouldn't say what happened to you is due solely to the automatic updates default choice to reboot now. You do, after all, have the mouse pointer snap too function enabled, and you chose to have the system download and install updates automatically. So maybe you need to take some ownership of the issue?

For updates if it wants to do a reboot it is a good idea to let it rather than put it off. That said I don't use automatic updates. I go to the windows update site periodically and scan for new updates. Most of the time updates come out on the second Tuesday of the month - called patch Tuesday. There are exceptions, like last month, where a mid month update comes out, but that is not the norm. Use the custom install option to see what updates are offered, and then review them to see if you want it on your system.

I download the updates individually and install them off line one at a time. That way you have control over what gets installed and when. Never get hardware driver updates from the windows update site.

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Rock [ MVP User/Shell]

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