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[tim222]

Goodness Gracious there's *another* Microsoft Windows update ready to be downloaded and installed! I'll bet the patches occupy more disk space than the original O/S files...

Oops... Did I just open the door for an O/S war? hehe

[Dabrowski]

As the patched files overwrite the originals, I doubt they add much to the installed size, the thing that does annoy me is that each one creates a $NTUninstall.......$ folder within the Windows base folder.

Mine are taking 300Mb, quite a bit, but a small drop in the 300Gb in my machine. Not enough to care about in my oppinion. These are also automatically compressed on an NTFS volume.

What does annoy me even more, is that now I say 'folder' instead of 'directory'. Stupid Windows.

[encyclo]

Two days ago I downloaded 100Mb+ of updates... for my Ubuntu Linux installation. OK I hadn't checked for a month or so, but all major OS installations need frequent patching.

Windows bugs are worse, though! ;)

[Fiver]

I'm just sick of waking up in the morning to find that windows has restarted my system for me after installing some updates... killing the overnight processes I left running.

There's got to be a way to turn this off in vista... hmmm

[Rugles]

Oh ya. You have to turn off that automatic install option because it can restart your machine at the worst times. It cost us a fortune once when a server rebooted and killed our accounting software.

[tim222]

You have to turn off that automatic install option because it can restart your machine at the worst times. It cost us a fortune once when a server rebooted and killed our accounting software.

Yeah, I learned that the hard way, too, although fortunately it didn't cost any money. But I got an urgent call one morning at 7AM because our internal system was down, so I had to rush into the office. I normally don't arrive until 10 or 10:30, so it sucked, to say the least. I was not especially thrilled when I learned it was caused by an automatic reboot, but then that's alot better than a dead SCSI controller.

[Rugles]

Well I dont feel so stupid now.

[rocknbil]

Even if you turn it off - after doing an install that requires a reboot it nags you every 15 minutes like a henpecking wife: "Your system must be restarted for the updates to take effect. Restart your computer now?" And if you have to take a run to the privvy, and don't get back in time, you may find your system in the middle of a reboot.

Out of all the minor beefs with MS, I only have two really big ones, this one and that busted-butt excuse they have for a web browser. :-)

[Rugles]

Why the heck would M$ even allow an automatic reboot for a server OS anyways!

[Dabrowski]

hehe, read this!

[webmasterworld.com...]

[Rugles]

Well there you go, it happens more than we think.

Someday its going to kill somebody because servers with this feature are everywhere.

[g1smd]

El Reg had some coverage of this yesterday:

[theregister.co.uk...]

[Marcia]

Since yesterday's XP update my IE cache can't be cleared, and IE (and the whole system) have been freezing up so I have to labor to reboot all day, and at times kill the power to do it - also at the worst possible times.

After all these years, I've got no choice but to make a 99% switch over to FF, including as default browser.