Windows 8 Will Be Less Demanding of Update Restarts

[Belardo]

[citation][nom]SteelCity1981[/nom]Why not? I mean are you telling me with all of those genuis code writers working at microsoft that none of them can think of away to not have system reboots after an update????[/citation]
Do a manual update. It's not difficult.

 

[egmccann]

[citation][nom]ojas[/nom]People actually have the OS restart automatically? I never remember that happening...it always shows me a pop-up saying "restart now" and it lets me optionally postpone it.[/citation]

I don't remember it happening because mine... restarts early in the morning while I'm asleep. Sure, it's nice to have a longer period before restart, I suppose - but how about, instead of having that pop up at an inconvenient time, having the user presented with a clock that says "It's ok to restart for updates at this time" (and potentially day) instead of "4 hours" or "15 minutes" or "72 hours?" Wouldn't that seem like a better solution?

(I'm not worried about it either way, honestly - again, I can't think of the last time it actually impacted me while running Win7 - but if they're looking for a better way to do things, that sounds like a possibility to me.)

 

[tlmck]

[citation][nom]clonazepam[/nom]I lost count how many times Linux requested a restart from critical updates.[/citation]

It's hard to keep track of zero?

 

[pistrix]

If the computer is running as it should, why put on a band-aid? I seriously hate the updates as someone pointed out, it sfrustrating with a restart, when it´s only updating a language pack, or someting utterly usless. The user should be able to install the updates when we wnt it not the other way around. Another anoying thong is that when update is downloding large files, when you for example is playing online like BF3, it slows down the connection.

 

[dontknownotsure]

[citation][nom]kinggremlin[/nom]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WLwRg3erm4[/citation]

replace microsoft r&d corps with saudis drifters now lol

 

[Benihana]

[citation][nom]techguy378[/nom]There are only two ways to keep a computer malware free. One is to permanently disconnect it from the internet completely. The other is to install every single update Microsoft releases on the very day it's released when Microsoft wants to install it. Your restrictive firewall policies and disabling of unnecessary services by themselves won't do anything to prevent malware from getting on your computer. Thank God Windows Vista and Windows 7 never require clean installs like Windows XP does.[/citation]
That's kind of my point. I've been using the method I mentioned earlier since 2002, and had malware one time back in like 2005. No viruses, nothing. Keeping your computer 100% up-to-date with Microsoft updates will not prevent all malware either. And keeping a restrictive firewall does help, unless your one of those users that clicks on every link that comes to you. If you remember installing Windows XP and then the SP1a service pack, you might remember that it had the firewall disabled by default. If you installed it while plugged into the Internet, you pretty much got malware right off the bat! Had to re-install Windows XP 6-7 times the first time to figure out to keep my ethernet port unplugged.

And my mentioning of disabling unnecessary services was poorly worded, but I do that more-so just to streamline my system. If I'm not using a feature, then I want it off.

 

[Guest]

[citation][nom]alidan[/nom]and each update eats 1-2 gb of space and i have no clue where it goes. [/citation]

Look in your c:\windows folder. There should be a bunch of blue folders in there all stating with $NTUninstall... or $NTServicePackUninstal... . These are the Hotfix installation files that are eating your disk space, if you are sure you will never want to uninstall the hotfix you can go ahead and delete them safely.

Stuart

 

[cookoy]

If it's a critical update that requires restart to secure my pc, i can spare a minute or two to complete the update process. Not such a big deal.

 

[Anomalyx]

I have 2 reactions to this:
1. About time; I'm tired of having to restart for every single little patch.
2. Really, only 3.44% of people like to be notified before update downloads? I personally like to make sure I'm not doing anything else bandwidth-intensive before downloading updates. Although, for the average, non-geek user, I would suggest auto-installing updates, otherwise the updates will never happen.

 

[Anomalyx]

[citation][nom]livebriand[/nom]In the dialog begging me to reboot, here's what I click (if I remember the options correctly):Nag in 10 minutes: 0%30 minutes: 0%1 hour: 0%4 hours: 100%Restart now: 0%If there was an option to have it shut up for a week, I would use it. I'll restart when I feel like it, which is typically on a daily basis anyway.[/citation]
I thought I was the only one... This is EXACTLY what I do as well.

 

[gm0n3y]

Urge to kill rising...

As long as they give the option to turn auto-updates off then I'm fine with whatever hand-holding scheme they want to do to get 'normal' users to update their systems. Personally I like Windows to notify me when updates are available. The majority of the time I'll install them right away, but sometimes I'm busy and don't get to them for a couple of days. Either way, its MY choice.

 

[igot1forya]

Here is my grace period!

net stop "Windows Update"
shutdown -f -r -t 99999

 

[legacy7955]

I'm one of the 2.38% I allow WU to download the update but I ALWAYS MANUALLY INSTALL EVERY TIME!

Manual Updates for me too!

 

[eddieroolz]

I prefer to delay it as long as necessary; sometimes I just don't want to start Eclipse back up.

 

[randomizer]

[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]Funny, MS has reduced the frequency of automatic restarts, kept manual over-ride and stops temporarily if you have anything critical running.[/citation]
The manual override is only good for 4 hours at a time. Where is the "I will restart when I damn well feel like it" option? The only way around this is to turn off automatic updates, which of course I do.

No amount of overrides changes the fact that there are reboot requirements for trivial updates, which is a problem. I know that there are technical reasons why this is necessary (I can't remember off the top of my head but I think it's something to do with system files being locked while in use), but these limitations do not exist in other operating systems and as such Microsoft should look at improving things at a lower level rather than just changing the schedule.