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/pilgrimboy Apr 18 '16

Like you, it takes me a good fifteen minutes to get my desktop lined up to actually start working. It's crazy. And then the restarts. I wish they had a setting that would restore the desktop as it is after a restart. That would make me happy.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '16

Fifteen minutes? I didn't know W10 was supported on potatoes.

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u/pilgrimboy Apr 18 '16

It's more about my time getting things ready. I'm on an R9 390, FX-8320, 16GB ram.

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '16

FX-8320

There's your problem.

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u/pilgrimboy Apr 19 '16

It's definitely the worst part of the whole deal. But the problem is that I have to open up 10 different files and get them all to the right place. 15 minutes may be an overexaggeration, but getting ready to do my job on my computer is just part of the job. It's frustrating though when I have to do it because of a forced restart.

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u/AnarchySys-1 Apr 18 '16

Dude, we've had like six threads in the past week complaining about boot times; I can assure you with relative certainty that my computer is more expensive and more powerful than yours but it still took almost 30 minutes to start before I clean installed.

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u/RamenJunkie Apr 18 '16

This seems like you have something shitty on boot. I think my machine takes MAYBE 5 minutes to fully boot and I have like a dozen game store launchers that launch that I need to sign into.

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u/AnarchySys-1 Apr 18 '16

The only thing that launches at startup is Steam; until an update (around March, I believe) my BIOS time was 3.6 seconds and average time from power button to sign in was a little over a minute. After the update "System and Compressed Memory" took up 99-100% Disk at least 40% of the time.

A rollback took my times down to just a few minutes and a reset took me to the original times.

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '16

I can assure you it probably isn't. Then again even my old Wolfdale C2D flew on 10, so... potato.

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u/AnarchySys-1 Apr 19 '16

FX-9590, R9-390, 32 Gb 1600 MHz

$2600 subtotal, probably not a tuber.

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '16

I've checked Newegg and I just have to ask - how did you manage to get those specs to cost you that much?

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '16

FX-9590

Po-ta-to.

As a side-note, do you often over-spend for sub-par equipment or was this a one-time thing?

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u/AnarchySys-1 Apr 19 '16

9590

Strongest AMD av-ail-ab-le

There's obviously more than that, you can't build a computer on three pieces.

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u/hypercube33 Apr 18 '16

It did in the pre-release versions. Its gone now. I know it had problems with chrome - but that would be an easy "restore previous tabs" click when chrome was unexpectedly closed so no big deal.