- Dec 30, 2004
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THIS crap has got to stop.
So I've since turned off all updates, and will do them as I see fit. I don't mind if it wants to manage it for me in the background at 3am when I'm not using it, but if part of "managing it" involves trying to pull crap like this I won't allow it. I used to just be able to grab the "reboot now, reboot later" window and hide it under my taskbar if I was busy.
I'm about to call up MS and scream at somebody. Several people actually. First time Vista did this to me it was crunch time and I was in the middle of a big project for school. I had hidden the "reboot in x hours" window under my taskbar and then it morphed into the "rebooting in 5 minutes" window and I hadn't seen it. It started closing all my programs and it tried to kill Multisim and my project/circuit design but luckily I was able to hit save in time. I can't believe they'd pull something like this.
So I've since turned off all updates, and will do them as I see fit. I don't mind if it wants to manage it for me in the background at 3am when I'm not using it, but if part of "managing it" involves trying to pull crap like this I won't allow it. I used to just be able to grab the "reboot now, reboot later" window and hide it under my taskbar if I was busy.
I'm about to call up MS and scream at somebody. Several people actually. First time Vista did this to me it was crunch time and I was in the middle of a big project for school. I had hidden the "reboot in x hours" window under my taskbar and then it morphed into the "rebooting in 5 minutes" window and I hadn't seen it. It started closing all my programs and it tried to kill Multisim and my project/circuit design but luckily I was able to hit save in time. I can't believe they'd pull something like this.