Protest

[Cinzia]

Hi, I'm writing to strongly protest against the fact that whenever the PC
needs updatinbg, it turns off and starts again by itself, regardless of the
fact that I gave the order to postpone. In this way I only waste time and
the long mail that I was writing and almost finishing went lost. It should
be up to me to decide whether and when to install the updating programas. I
hope some people from the Microsoft managing team will be be reading this
mail.
This makes me feel like passing over to Linux, as many friends of mine have
already done.
Best regards
Cinzia

 

[Dirk Goldgar]

Hi, I'm writing to strongly protest against the fact that whenever the PC
needs updatinbg, it turns off and starts again by itself, regardless of
the fact that I gave the order to postpone. In this way I only waste time
and the long mail that I was writing and almost finishing went lost. It
should be up to me to decide whether and when to install the updating
programas. I hope some people from the Microsoft managing team will be be
reading this mail.
This makes me feel like passing over to Linux, as many friends of mine
have already done.

I appreciate your sentiment, but you're posting in the wrong newsgroup.
Although its title, "microsoft.public.access", may suggest to you that this
newsgroup is for public "access" to Microsoft, it is actually devoted to
discussion of Microsoft Access, the database program.

A more appropriate newsgroup, probably in the microsoft.public.windows.*
hierarchy, might be a better venue for your post. However, I can say that I
do not have the same problem you experience, with my "Automatic Updating"
setting in the Control Panel applet "Windows Security Center" set to "Not
automatic". Although the computer tells me when updates are available, it
does nothing to install them unless I tell it to. If you don't have the
corresponding option set to "not automatic" on your computer, maybe you
should try that.

 

[S.Clark]

You CAN control whether or not updates occur automatically. Further, you can
disable the service altogether. Thus, your rant makes you appear like an
uneducated user. And if you believe that moving to a more-difficult and less
supported operating system will make you a smarter or better user, then you
are sadly mistaken.

"I'll try being nicer, if you try being smarter."
-Paigebert