Updating your computer is almost complete. You must restart your computer for the updates to take effect.

Stop bothering me Microsoft XP updater

"I was in the middle of something, had to do an update to get some piece of software working that I need to have working so I can get on with what I was doing. But I need to reboot the PC to get the update to work, but surely that's the antipothesis of getting on with my work? Windows you r teh suxxor aaarrrrrrgghhhhh!!! OK I'll reboot but while it's rebooting I'll go and get a coffee... must have coffee now arrraaaghagahga!!!"

lol get a mac

lol gimme $$$!!!

lol get a job

lol gimme another job!!!

lol burger king won't take mcdonald's employees

i have a mac. it asks me annoying things too sometimes.

I suppose if you use Firefox you get the same "update to the latest version" pop-up that I just got. Which I clicked "later" on, because I know it'll ask me to close all open browser windows blah blah blah five minutes later, etc..

i got that earlier, updated to version 3 and it wiped all my bookmarks

failfox amirite

Thanks for the heads up, I'll avoid updating until they fix that

there was some OSX server security update that apparently reset or wiped all the permissions they'd set up for half our office. It's entirely likely they (they being our IT people) did something wrong though

I just turn off XP auto updates as soon as I start off with a new PC and OS. If I need updates I'll bloody well get them myself.

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I just turn off XP auto updates as soon as I start off with a new PC and OS. If I need updates I'll bloody well get them myself.

I've finally come around to doing this, having had to re-install XP on 2 different occasions when the fucking thing started going wrong immediately after doing a big update. Now it can just sit there being un-updated (though it keeps nagging me about this--anyone know how to turn that off?)

how do i turn off xp auto-update?

I dunno how to stop it nagging about it being turned off/reminding me to update but it doesnt do so for me. I wish I could remember how I did it!

I think it is somewhere in the control panel system settings... or I might have used TweakUI, Im not sure.

right click my computer, properties, automatic updates tab

had that firefox message too last night, clicked 'later'. my pc takes an aeon to load up, sometimes not at all !

restart later is gonna walk this

"I was in the middle of something, had to do an update to get some piece of software working that I need to have working so I can get on with what I was doing. But I need to reboot the PC to get the update to work, but surely that's the antipothesis of getting on with my work? Windows you r teh suxxor aaarrrrrrgghhhhh!!! OK I'll reboot but while it's rebooting I'll go and get a coffee... must have coffee now arrraaaghagahga!!!"

-- snoball, Tuesday, August 26, 2008 10:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

lol channelling

yeh yeh osx does this too...often enough.

now someone tell me why audio cd's do not mount but dvd's do. this just started to happen.

oh yeah.....restart now.

always restart later

At least now when you change network settings in Windows you don't have to reboot. I always hated that when I was working as a field technician, because I'd have to reboot once for the new settings to take effect, then reboot again to make sure that the settings had taken properly. But if a client was looking over my shoulder the whole reboot-reboot thing made it look as though I didn't know what I was doing.

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But if a client was looking over my shoulder the whole reboot-reboot thing made it look as though I didn't know what I was doing.

One of the annoying hassles that made me leave the field, having to constantly appear appropriately busy...

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i've been ignoring an osx update notice for over a week now :)

about 6 months for me - i steal crappy wi-fi, and it'd take all day

^^^ this links in to what Nhex posted - I got sick of having to find subtle ways to tell the client that I could only work as fast as the computer, and if they has POS slow garbage then it was going to take longer to do stuff, and that was not necessarily an indication of laziness/slacking on my part.

"I just turn off XP auto updates as soon as I start off with a new PC and OS. If I need updates I'll bloody well get them myself."

This is more acceptable now most people have the XP firewall, but before thay you were leaving yourself open to 0 day exploits and if you use IE then you still kind of are.

what does the ps3 updates keep adding? i see no improvement in performance, do they all just think we're all systems admins and love to keep updating our systems. I WANT TO PLAY GAMES NOT STARE AT A PROGRESS BAR EVERYTIME I LOG IN

sorry about the woeful english and sentence structure there, but surely you're used to it by now :)

They should make a game for the Wii called "stare at a bloody progress bar", because I'm sure they feel left out, what with their updates that actually, you know, add useful functions to the console.

http://www.progressquest.com/

See also www.chorewars.com

(xpost) Not that I really have a valid opinion on console gaming, because the last console I had was a Dreamcast. Good luck waiting on updates for that one.

Oh man Progress Quest! I laughed like an exceptionally geeky drain at that when a friend pointed me at it a year ago... and now I can do so again! Awesomes.

Oh, and click "later" about three times until it pops up unnoticed while I'm typing thunderously and I realise how perilously close I came to hitting Y or whichever key would reboot, so then it is time to head to command prompt and type

net stop "automatic updates"

worst scenario, clicking on 'restart now' then walking off to make brew, come back five mins later to screen that says 'are you sure y/n?'

I just drag the "Restart Now" dialog box to the bottom right corner of the screen by the time and then it doesn't pop up any more

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I still haven't restarted my computer since I started this thread.

^ world record for xp

I've seen plenty of XP machines run for months on end. I run mine for weeks without crashes - I shut down occasionally to cool it off tho, the laptop gets a bit overheated.

I just drag the "Restart Now" dialog box to the bottom right corner of the screen by the time and then it doesn't pop up any more

― Colonel Poo, Friday, August 29, 2008 9:19 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark

ive been doing this for about a week.

Vista always restarted itself WITHOUT ASKING ME until I found the setting that forces it to fucking stop doing that. Now it merely annoys the shit out of me.

no, i don't want service pack 3 right now. no i don't want it in five minutes. no not now. not now. not now. wait til later.

no, not now.

world record for xpost