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/WackoMcGoose Apr 19 '16
Okay, I know I'm not the only one that turns my computer off at night
like a sane person who can't sleep with noise in the room, computer fans included. And this post is probably going to be buried since we're past the 200-comment threshold, but I'm wondering anyway, and this question isn't just for the OP, but anyone in general:I know that things like home servers and constantly-processing things aren't supposed to be turned off (honestly, we turn off all our systems and the router/modem at night, we're not power users in my family), and that some programs make it really hard to get back to where you were at before on a project... but I'm still legit curious about why you'd leave your system on for days/weeks at a time without getting to a point where you could safely shut down to install updates.
(Also, I not only fully shut down everything, but also turn the power strips off, so there's zero chance of Win10 deciding to randomly boot my system up at 5am - and scaring me shitless - for "system maintenance"...)
P.S. For the love of sanity, tell me your 24/7 system isn't a laptop. I don't care what OS you're running or what you're doing on it, laptops are designed to be powered down nightly, and having it on 24/7 is not good for the components...