Tuesday reboots

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Dear Microsoft ,

Practically every other Tuesday, I come back to my machine and it has been
rebooted on the wisdom of the MS Corporate. Regardless of the work I have
open, the long running analyzes that take DAYS to complete, and the DAYS of
lost work I now have to redo.

For this, I just want to say, "Thank you Microsoft." You've made my week and
cost me in time and money enough to migrate over to another OS.
 
ms_xoxoxo said:
Dear Microsoft ,

Practically every other Tuesday, I come back to my machine and it has been
rebooted on the wisdom of the MS Corporate. Regardless of the work I have
open, the long running analyzes that take DAYS to complete, and the DAYS of
lost work I now have to redo.

For this, I just want to say, "Thank you Microsoft." You've made my week and
cost me in time and money enough to migrate over to another OS.
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Try configuring your Automatic Updates to "Notify me but don't download
or install them" and then you can do the updates when you want to do
them. You obviously have Automatic Updates configured to install
automatically without your input which isn't what you want.

M
 
ms_xoxoxo said:
Dear Microsoft ,

Practically every other Tuesday, I come back to my machine and it has been
rebooted on the wisdom of the MS Corporate. Regardless of the work I have
open, the long running analyzes that take DAYS to complete, and the DAYS
of
lost work I now have to redo.

For this, I just want to say, "Thank you Microsoft." You've made my week
and
cost me in time and money enough to migrate over to another OS.
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Further to M's advice, have a look here: "
Disable system auto restart after installing Windows updates",
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=555444
 
ms_xoxoxo said:
Dear Microsoft ,

Practically every other Tuesday, I come back to my machine and it has been
rebooted on the wisdom of the MS Corporate. Regardless of the work I have
open, the long running analyzes that take DAYS to complete, and the DAYS of
lost work I now have to redo.

For this, I just want to say, "Thank you Microsoft." You've made my week and
cost me in time and money enough to migrate over to another OS.
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Notwithstanding the fine advice from the other posters, the Microsoft
updates of which you write are almost always only released on the
second Tuesday of the month. Although not all updates will require a
reboot, it does seem that many have lately. Occasionally Microsoft
releases and out of band update deemed so critical as to warrant
immediate release and some of these may require a reboot.
 
ms_xoxoxo said:
Dear Microsoft ,

Practically every other Tuesday, I come back to my machine and it has been
rebooted on the wisdom of the MS Corporate. Regardless of the work I have
open, the long running analyzes that take DAYS to complete, and the DAYS
of
lost work I now have to redo.

For this, I just want to say, "Thank you Microsoft." You've made my week
and
cost me in time and money enough to migrate over to another OS.
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No, it rebooted on the lack of wisdom by the OP.
The OP will screw up the next OS also.

Jim
 
Dear Microsoft ,

Practically every other Tuesday, I come back to my machine and it has been
rebooted on the wisdom of the MS Corporate.  Regardless of the work I have
open, the long running analyzes that take DAYS to complete, and the DAYS of
lost work I now have to redo.

For this, I just want to say, "Thank you Microsoft." You've made my week and
cost me in time and money enough to migrate over to another OS.
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It doesn't have to be that way and you can control how updates are
applied.

Make a plan, work the plan...
 
Jim said:
No, it rebooted on the lack of wisdom by the OP.
The OP will screw up the next OS also.

Jim
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This has nothing to do with wisdom. Lack of experience, perhaps, and lack of
foresight by the Microsoft engineers. An operating system must not reboot
itself automatically unless the user explicitly allows it to do so.
 
should be only one tuesday of
each month that your computer
needs to be updated.

I would disable auto updates
and manually ask for updates
when it is convenient for you.

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The user is explicitly allowing the reboot..
Pegasus said:
This has nothing to do with wisdom. Lack of experience, perhaps, and lack
of foresight by the Microsoft engineers. An operating system must not
reboot itself automatically unless the user explicitly allows it to do so.
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Dear Microsoft ,
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I'm not sure whom you think you're addressing, or what answers you
think you're entitled to, but just in case you're confused, let me
make it very clear: this isn't Microsoft you're addressing.

This is a peer support newsgroup. We are all just Windows XP users
here, helping each other if and when we can. We are not Microsoft
employees (not even those of us with "Microsoft MVP" behind our names;
that's an honorary title for having provided consistently helpful
advice) except for an occasional employee who posts here unofficially
on his own time.


Practically every other Tuesday, I come back to my machine and it has been
rebooted on the wisdom of the MS Corporate. Regardless of the work I have
open, the long running analyzes that take DAYS to complete, and the DAYS of
lost work I now have to redo.
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The second Tuesday of each month is Update Tuesday. What your computer
is set to do on that day is up to *you*, not to Microsoft. You can
have it set to download updates automatically, notify you that updates
are available for you to download, or to do nothing,

And even if you have it set to download updates automatically, whether
it will automatically reboot afterwards also depends on how *you* have
it set.

For this, I just want to say, "Thank you Microsoft." You've made my week and
cost me in time and money enough to migrate over to another OS.
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So to repeat myself and make it clear, this is not Microsoft's fault
at all. What's happening is a result of how *you* set your options.
Blame yourself, not Microsoft.
 
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