Do Not Turn Off Or Switch Power

[fasihxkhatib]

Every single time windows installs updates while shutting down it says not to turn off or switch power.

Why does it say not to switch power?
Lets say i'm shutting down my laptop as i am done with my work and my battery is low.
And bam!!! Windows is installing updates. Now it says not to switch power from dc to ac.

So my questions are
1. Why does it say so
2. Whats the way around it

 

[Unolocogringo]

There is also an option to shut down without installing updates(XP).
Switching from battery to AC happens seamlessly no worries there.

 

[Hawkeye22]

It says do not shutdown or turn the power off, not don't switch the power as in from battery to AC or vice/versa.

 

[apache_lives]

set your windows update settings to what you want

perhaps you want the one "let me choose wether to download/install updates" or "download updates but let me choose when to install" etc

 

[fasihxkhatib]

so it wont be a problem if i switch from dc to ac right???

 

[Hawkeye22]

so it wont be a problem if i switch from dc to ac right???

Correct.

Just let it finish rebooting so that it properly installs the updates.

 

[Hawkeye22]

Not all updates require a reboot, but if it does, sometimes the file it needs to replace is in use by the OS. On shutdown, windows will modify the registry notifying it that this file needs moved in place upon next reboot. Upon reboot, you will see the screen say "installing updates" before you get to the login screen, at least in Vista and 7. XP just installs it silently on next reboot.

 

[fasihxkhatib]

Thanks everyone for the help