i’ll restart when i’m freaking ready to restart
Dear Windows Update,
Thank you for automatically installing those urgent updates to fix those new critical vulnerabilities in your own code. I heartily appreciate it.
However, once you have completed downloading and installing those updates, I implore you, please… ask me once if I want to restart now or later.
Let me repeat that:
Ask me once.
If I say “Restart Later”, please respect my wishes, treat me like an adult, and remember what I just told you. Stop asking me if I want to restart every 5 minutes. I will restart my computer when I am done what I am doing.
Sometimes, that will be in a few minutes. Sometimes, that will be a in a few hours. It’s my computer. I’ll restart when I’m good and ready. No sooner.
So… Get. Off. My. Back.
Sincerely,
Me
P.S. Here’s a fun solution — why not give me three options?:
- “Restart Now”
- “I’ll Restart It Myself Later.”
- “I’m In The Middle Of Something But I’ve Lost All Short-Term Memory So Please Remind Me Periodically That My Computer Needs To Be Restarted And Could You Also Remind Me To Bathe And Clothe Myself Regularly That Would Be Lovely.”
Thoughts?
November 14th, 2005 at 6:18 pm
ARGH! Listen to what it was doing to me. I had it set for “do it automatically”–why, I have no idea. But it can’t log back into my account, and it would invariable re-boot over the weekend . . . killing the redirect for my Blackberry. ARGH. Suxxit.
November 15th, 2005 at 10:15 am
Does the same thing to me at home. No Blackberry, but when you come into the computer room first thing in the morning to check on something you left up and instead your system is showing the Ubuntu login screen (which is what it starts up in unless you catch it at boot time)… that’s a might annoying.
Suxxit indeed.