stephen2002
12-19-2004, 12:49 PM
I just woke up this morning to the surprise of the WinXP standard screen saver, and I never have a screen saver set. I poked the mouse; it was sitting at the logon screen. Great, the computer re-started itself overnight, not the first time that has happened. So I get logged on and a little bubble pops up that says something along the lines of “Automatic Update has installed an update that required an automatic re-start of your computer. Your computer is now up to date.”
That was NOT a nice thing. I never ever want my computer to be re-starting by itself, as I usually have rendering going in the background and that was 6 hours of CPU time down the tubes. Plus my personal web server is down while the computer is sitting at the logon screen.
So that is just a warning to you. It is a good idea to leave automatic updates on but turn off automatic installations.
On a related note, does anybody know why it takes days for automatic updates to actually download anything? I think that last one had been downloading for at least 4 days, and it was not really even generating any noticeable network traffic as it “downloaded”.
That was NOT a nice thing. I never ever want my computer to be re-starting by itself, as I usually have rendering going in the background and that was 6 hours of CPU time down the tubes. Plus my personal web server is down while the computer is sitting at the logon screen.
So that is just a warning to you. It is a good idea to leave automatic updates on but turn off automatic installations.
On a related note, does anybody know why it takes days for automatic updates to actually download anything? I think that last one had been downloading for at least 4 days, and it was not really even generating any noticeable network traffic as it “downloaded”.