ah-ohh... windows update automatically reboots some vista machines!!!

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Taibear ios

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=830


Windows Update automatically changing user settings (again)

Posted by Mary Jo Foley

After Patch Tuesday this week (October 9), some Windows Vista users noticed
something strange: Windows Update had changed their Automatic Update
settings and rebooted their machines automatically without their consent.

The new report comes on the heels of recent complaints regarding Windows
Update performing stealth updates on users' machines who had turned off
Automatic Updates. (Microsoft officials subsequently explained that glitch
by saying that Windows Update requires self-updating before it is able to
recognize that new updates are available. Microsoft promised to be clearer,
in the future, in communicating this requirement.)
The AeroXperience Web site reported a new Windows Update problem on October
10, and was told by Microsoft that the company was aware of the issue and
were digging into what happened and why.

It's hard to say how many users have been affected by this week's Windows
Update problem. The patch-setting override seems to not have affected users
running the beta of Vista Service Pack (SP) 1, though that is not 100
percent verified, AeroXP members said. It's also not clear whether any
Windows XP users were affected and/or whether Vista users who obtain their
patches via Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) were hit with the same
problem.
AeroXP member Rafael Rivera explained the malfunction this way:

"Woke up this morning to a Windows log in screen? Swear you set that option
'Download updates but let me choose whether to install them'? We did too.
"In what appears to be a major glitch at Microsoft, Windows users are
trickling in from across the globe reporting that their machines downloaded
and installed updates they did not consent to. Rubbing salt in the wound,
machines were also automatically and forcefully rebooted at the default 3am
time frame."

AeroXP quotes a Microsoft spokesperson who said the company currently is
investigating the issue "regarding machines that are re-starting and having
automatic updating settings set back to 'Install Updates Automatically,'
despite having selected to be notified before installation of updates."
Users who've encountered the problem should contact Microsoft Support at
http://support.microsoft.com/security, Microsoft suggested.
Any users out there who encountered this problem this week?
 
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Alias

Taibear said:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=830


Windows Update automatically changing user settings (again)

Posted by Mary Jo Foley

After Patch Tuesday this week (October 9), some Windows Vista users noticed
something strange: Windows Update had changed their Automatic Update
settings and rebooted their machines automatically without their consent.

The new report comes on the heels of recent complaints regarding Windows
Update performing stealth updates on users' machines who had turned off
Automatic Updates. (Microsoft officials subsequently explained that glitch
by saying that Windows Update requires self-updating before it is able to
recognize that new updates are available. Microsoft promised to be clearer,
in the future, in communicating this requirement.)
The AeroXperience Web site reported a new Windows Update problem on October
10, and was told by Microsoft that the company was aware of the issue and
were digging into what happened and why.

It's hard to say how many users have been affected by this week's Windows
Update problem. The patch-setting override seems to not have affected users
running the beta of Vista Service Pack (SP) 1, though that is not 100
percent verified, AeroXP members said. It's also not clear whether any
Windows XP users were affected and/or whether Vista users who obtain their
patches via Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) were hit with the same
problem.
AeroXP member Rafael Rivera explained the malfunction this way:

"Woke up this morning to a Windows log in screen? Swear you set that option
'Download updates but let me choose whether to install them'? We did too.
"In what appears to be a major glitch at Microsoft, Windows users are
trickling in from across the globe reporting that their machines downloaded
and installed updates they did not consent to. Rubbing salt in the wound,
machines were also automatically and forcefully rebooted at the default 3am
time frame."

AeroXP quotes a Microsoft spokesperson who said the company currently is
investigating the issue "regarding machines that are re-starting and having
automatic updating settings set back to 'Install Updates Automatically,'
despite having selected to be notified before installation of updates."
Users who've encountered the problem should contact Microsoft Support at
http://support.microsoft.com/security, Microsoft suggested.
Any users out there who encountered this problem this week?

Wow, not good. It doesn't seem to be impacting XP, though. It wouldn't
affect Frank though. If it reboots when he's either typing his garbage
here or when he's visiting his favorite porn site, no big deal.
 
S

Spanky deMonkey

So you just troll the internet looking for negative articles to post about
Vista. Pretty good there. You must be really bored to post hour after
hour, day after day, articles and nonsense about Vista.

Maybe turn off the computer and go outside and look at some trees and birds.

Just FYI.
 
F

Free Phones

Spanky deMonkey said:
So you just troll the internet looking for negative articles to post about
Vista. Pretty good there. You must be really bored to post hour after
hour, day after day, articles and nonsense about Vista.

Maybe turn off the computer and go outside and look at some trees and
birds.

Just FYI.

Breaking into someones home or office and rebooting their machines is
criminal. Anyone that says otherwise is a liar and extremely stupid.

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Guest

i want to thank you for telling us about this..you did good..i for one have
all ways..worried about something like that.i have all ways told people not
to leave there computers on..i turn mind off..but some people leave them on
24/7

i think whats going on..is,this os is so defective..they are comeing up with
every fix and patch they can think of and they even come up with one to take
over our computers..that is bad..but i allso think.they are not trying to
hurt us..but they are just..going crazy trying to come up with all these
fixes..

they dont want to loose there asses on this vista.so they are trying to do
things..to make it work like its suposed to and to make us happy...they want
every one to install..al the patches and fixes..and its got to be done..so
let them have at it..

i think down the road,if they get enough fixes and patches and service
packs,,they should have all of that on a dvd and give us
replacement..dvd,s..and maybe we and vista will be at a point.that the mass
updateing..will be over with..we will have a full operating system..s was
promised..but was not delivered..to us
 
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Frank

Taibear said:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=830


Windows Update automatically changing user settings (again)

Posted by Mary Jo Foley

Ahhh...MJF...the world's oldest, longest running MS hater...she is the
queen of MS hate.
I've had personal words with her over the years, decade in fact.
Her MS hating venom is the most potent on the web. She never lets the
facts get in her way of spewing her hatred.
Frank
 
G

Guest

Tiber, I have XP and Vista on my Network. Both computers are set to notify me
of updates. Nothing changed with my settings on Update Day this month, or any
other month!
 
W

WaIIy

Wow, not good. It doesn't seem to be impacting XP, though. It wouldn't
affect Frank though. If it reboots when he's either typing his garbage
here or when he's visiting his favorite porn site, no big deal.

I had hell to pay and this weeks updates blue screened me. It took
an hour to get things straightened around.

I've been using XP since it came out and an update never blue screened
me before.
 
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Adam Albright

Ahhh...MJF...the world's oldest, longest running MS hater...she is the
queen of MS hate.
I've had personal words with her over the years, decade in fact.
Her MS hating venom is the most potent on the web. She never lets the
facts get in her way of spewing her hatred.
Frank

Frank,you fu*king idiot, who haven't you had words with?
 
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norm

Frank said:
Ahhh...MJF...the world's oldest, longest running MS hater...she is the
queen of MS hate.
I've had personal words with her over the years, decade in fact.
Her MS hating venom is the most potent on the web. She never lets the
facts get in her way of spewing her hatred.
Frank
But is she reporting a fact in this instance? It makes no difference if
she is the world's oldest, longest running ms hater, whether or not you
have had personal words with her, or anything else. Either you can
refute what was reported or you can't. Which is it?
 
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Frank

norm said:
But is she reporting a fact in this instance? It makes no difference if
she is the world's oldest, longest running ms hater, whether or not you
have had personal words with her, or anything else. Either you can
refute what was reported or you can't. Which is it?

hahaha...nice try norman...I no longer read anything that has her sig line.
Frank
 
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f/fgeorge

No she is just reporting a normal thing that most users should change
anyway. Yes Windows auto reboots if you have the autupdater set to
auto do its thing and the updates require a reboot. Most users should
cahnge the autoupdate settings to just notify you that there are
updates. This would solve this and other problems.
 
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Adam Albright

No she is just reporting a normal thing that most users should change
anyway. Yes Windows auto reboots if you have the autupdater set to
auto do its thing and the updates require a reboot. Most users should
cahnge the autoupdate settings to just notify you that there are
updates. This would solve this and other problems.

You clueless jackass, you never pay attention to what people say.

I ALWAYS have and always HAD Windows set to notify and NEVER used the
automatic update feature to install updates on it's own. Way back a
couple years ago using XP it took some update and just installed it
without notice, no warning, nothing while I was out of the room. It
just did it and trashed the long running task because I had going for
14 hours and rebooted on it's own causing me to have to start it over
from scratch.
 
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Frank

Adam said:
You clueless jackass, you never pay attention to what people say.

And you, you brainless moron village idiot, have absolutely no idea what
I'm talking about.
I ALWAYS have and always HAD Windows set to notify and NEVER used the
automatic update feature to install updates on it's own. Way back a
couple years ago using XP it took some update and just installed it
without notice, no warning, nothing while I was out of the room. It
just did it and trashed the long running task because I had going for
14 hours and rebooted on it's own causing me to have to start it over
from scratch.
Great advice from a loser who can't even get one little install of Vista
to run correctly.
Do you actually even have a copy of Vista?
Frank
 
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norm

f/fgeorge said:
No she is just reporting a normal thing that most users should change
anyway. Yes Windows auto reboots if you have the autupdater set to
auto do its thing and the updates require a reboot. Most users should
cahnge the autoupdate settings to just notify you that there are
updates. This would solve this and other problems.
Your premise is incorrect. It is a new issue regarding ms updates in
that ms purportedly changed user settings, having not just ignored them
as before. Here is the article the blog is based on. Please read it.
http://www.aeroxp.org/index.php?categoryid=23&p2_articleid=133
Update: According to a Microsoft spokesperson, the issue currently being
investigated is "regarding machines that are re-starting and having
automatic updating settings set back to 'Install Updates Automatically,'
despite having selected to be notified before installation of updates."
 
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NoStop

Frank said:
Ahhh...MJF...the world's oldest, longest running MS hater...she is the
queen of MS hate.
I've had personal words with her over the years, decade in fact.

Did she understand what said:
Her MS hating venom is the most potent on the web. She never lets the
facts get in her way of spewing her hatred.

Kinda, like you?

Cheers.

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Frank

NoStop said:
Frank wrote:




Kinda, like you?




Cheers.


RS needs he hairy arse kissed again and he prefers you do it since
you're one of the best open sores arse kissers around.
Don't keep him waiting!
Frank

Cheers!
 
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norm

NoStop said:
Did she understand what <snort> was all about?

My guess is that frank is telling the truth about his personal words
with her. She probably had the cross over a bridge he lives under, and
he would jump out and accost her with a "snort" or some other term of
endearment he is so fond of using.
 

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