Microsoft deliberately destroyed 10 hours of work

  • Thread starter Thread starter Lorne
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Lorne said:
Why should I disable auto updates - I want auto updates. What I also want
is for Microsoft to ask me before they restart the computer. It is not
stupid to set up your computer to auto update - in fact it is what Microsoft
recommend you do. What is stupid if for Microsoft to restart it when it is
in the middle of doing something without asking you first.
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It does ask you first. Many times I run the updates on different work
computers and if a re-start is required, it notifies me with a message
at the end of installing the updates. If I continue to use the computer
without doing a manual restart, a pop up box will hound me every so
often. If I do not click on the option to *restart later* the computer
goes into a countdown mode and will restart the computer after xxx minutes.

You *were* being notified, but since you were not in front of the laptop
to see the messages, you missed them and it got restarted by the
*automatic* updates. Which *automatically* searches, downloads, installs
AND restarts your computer.
 
Rob said:
Personally, I wouldn't have had the machine connected to the net if I
were running a 10 hr process.
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Excellent point; good catch, too. For tasks like that, all irrelevant
background tasks should be killed too, which might speed up the task
considerably.
When I do video work, I have a second profile for just that purpose.

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Richard said:
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.
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It's possible to set it for forced reboot after installs of updates.
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