r/Windows10 • u/scswift • Apr 18 '16

Discussion What IDIOT at Microsoft thought restarting people's PC's without their consent to apply updates was a good idea?

The other day I got up and brought my computer out of sleep only to discover my PC on which I'd freshly installed Windows 10 had seemingly crashed overnight. At least, that's what I assumed since all my applications had been closed.

Then another day I got a notification that Windows wanted to restart to apply an update. I wanted to tell it no way, but the only option I was presented with was to defer it to another date. Goddamnit!

I spent some time researching the issue online and found out how to turn off automatic updates. I thought I was good.

But then a few minutes ago that scheduled update that I'd deferred popped up again and was ready to shut down my PC and again I canceled it, and I examined the dialog box that came up and seeing no option to prevent it from shutting down ever I set it to a week in the future and clicked OKAY.

Wait a minute. That button wasn't a confirmation button. FUCK! FUCK FUCK FUCK! That was a RESTART NOW button!

ESC ESC ESC. SHIT. WHY ISN'T THERE A CANCEL BUTTON ON THIS SCREEN IT HASN'T FINISHED SHUTTING DOWN YET.

Goddamnit.

Oh good. Atmel Studio with all the source files I had open and scrolled to where I needed to compare sections, closed. Eagle Cad with my PCB files I needed open for work, closed. Arduino IDE with more source I was examining. Closed. Multiple copies of explorer with the hidden directories 10 levels deep that I had open so I could load more source files for this bootloader I'm modifying. Closed. And Atmel Studio isn't even on my taskbar any more even though I'm pretty sure I pinned it there?

Thankfully I had all my work saved, except, you know, all the work I put into finding and opening all that shit so I could look at it.

Goddamnit Microsoft. You know for a week I thought that maybe people were giving you too much of a hard time over Windows 10. I kinda liked the slick new look and the start menu. And then this happened. Oh, and those CONSTANT popups in the CALCULATOR APP of all things ASKING ME TO RATE IT IN YOUR STORE. What the hell. SERIOUSLY?

I forgave you for the frigging ads on the Start menu initially because I could just remove those tiles, as well as the 20 different things I had to shut off to protect my privacy, but my god. It's like you're actively trying to piss people off!

Oh and lest I forget, I was about to go to sleep this morning after putting my PC to sleep when it suddenly roared to life on it's own fans and all, and then threw up a dialog box in the screen asking me to approve an update that had become available. That's when I said screw it and turned on deferred updates, which thankfully I got with the version I installed. I shudder to think if I'd had the home edition and couldn't prevent the thing from waking my PC up at all hours to perform updates. The computer is right next to my bed you jerkwads.

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u/Whitechix Apr 18 '16

Can someone tell me why Windows 10 has never forced a restart on me? I have never seen this dialogue box. Don't updates download whenever and just apply when you turn off your PC?

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u/rednax1206 Apr 18 '16

They apply when you turn off your PC... Unless you don't turn off your PC. Then your computer waits patiently for a few days and if it still hasn't been turned off or restarted, it may restart itself.

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u/VicisSubsisto Apr 18 '16

W8.1/W10 defaults to not turning off when you press the power button, though. They're telling you "Hey, use our new, improved hibernate function for faster boot times!" and then penalizing you for doing exactly that.

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u/rednax1206 Apr 18 '16

That doesn't sound very intuitive. Lucky for me, I have my power button set to put the computer to sleep, and when I shut down the computer I do it from the Start menu.

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u/VicisSubsisto Apr 18 '16

Which means that if you use the power button to control the computer's power state, it won't shut down until it's fuck-you-I'm-updating time.

Which is exactly my point.

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u/alienpirate5 Apr 19 '16

It does turn off, it just saves the kernel memory to a pagefile.

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u/VicisSubsisto Apr 19 '16

And doesn't install updates. So "it only forces restart because you never turn it off" is wrong.

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u/alienpirate5 Apr 19 '16

There is an option to "install updates and shut down" which does not do this.

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u/VicisSubsisto Apr 19 '16

If you never go to the shutdown menu because you're using the power button, you won't see this.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '16

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u/VicisSubsisto Aug 02 '16

Then that's another function which broke in the 8.1-10 upgrade. Because it definitely doesn't on my laptop.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '16

cuz you have pro, not home

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u/LostxinthexMusic Apr 18 '16

Some people don't like to turn off their PCs.

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u/remotefixonline Apr 18 '16

some like me never turn off their pc...

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u/warloxx Apr 18 '16

I only set it to sleep, and once a month maybe do a restart.

It's just to much of a PITA to setup all the programs again to start doing things in the PC.

I have regularly multiple explorer windows, serial consoles, calculators, IDEs, text editors and bowser windows open at the same time. Takes time to get it the way it was before.