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Rebooting your computer daily will do the trick. Either shut it down at the end of the day, or give it a reboot. It will do its thing and leave you alone for th
by tokenizerrr 9y ago
Rebooting your computer daily will do the trick. Either shut it down at the end of the day, or give it a reboot. It will do its thing and leave you alone for the next 24 hours.
Before you downvote me, which many of you have done already for some reason, please keep in mind that this advice actually works. It's not my decision to have things work like this. That's on Microsoft. But it does work, and is legitimate advice.
- cm2187 9y agoSounds like a Windows 98 advice...
- pidg 9y agoProblem: I do not like that the computer reboots automatically. Solution: Reboot computer manually.
- tokenizerrr 9y agoIt's simple fact that Windows needs to reboot to install updates. Does it suck? Yes! Is it a necessary part of life if you choose to use Windows? Also yes. People seem to complain about Windows rebooting outside of their control. This fixes that problem, and it's not like most people need their computer to be on when they're asleep anyway.
- FussyZeus 9y agoI get around this by having my machine back up to our NAS each night and shutting down when finished. Cuts down on the power bill too.
- hungerstrike 9y agoIt's also a part of life on my Macs, just not as often since it seems like they don't get updates as often as my Windows machines.
- cwisecarver 9y agoMacs don't reboot without you taking an action if you have automatic update installation disabled. You have to click a button to apply the updates after which it will reboot. But it tells you this in the dialog where you agree to apply the updates. Windows just applies them and reboots when you're not actively using the machine.
- hungerstrike 9y agoI wasn't responding to that, I was responding to the part about "OS needs to reboot to install updates" being a part of life - it definitely ain't just a Windows thing. Anyway, I'm glad that Windows restarts for me when I'm sleeping and I wish my Macs would do the same. It's pretty easy to avoid having it restart at the wrong time - you just go into the Settings and tell Windows what your active hours are. They let you enter a time range of up to 18 hours.
- tokenizerrr 9y agoThe problem is that windows will at some point start ignoring your active hours. This seems to happen if you put it to sleep after you're done working, so it's always sleeping/hibernating while outside of the active hours. This understandably pisses people off.
- hungerstrike 9y agoMy PCs wake up and perform the updates. Maybe that's the problem with laptops when they're not plugged in or something but I have not experienced it.
- tokenizerrr 9y agoIt works this way in Windows 10. I do not approve of it, but it does work and is the simplest way. Just turn your computer off at night and Microsoft will be happy.
- cm2187 9y agoI didn't
- silly_giraffe 9y agoExcept for us crazy individuals that need the computer on for uninterrupted data processing. I have Windows only software that can take two weeks to complete a dataset. There is no intermediate data backup, so if the job is killed, I have to start over. My only reliable option has been to keep it off the network.
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- tokenizerrr 9y agoYou're not a regular end user. The Microsoft way is for you to get the more expensive license so you can use group policies to adjust this behavior.
- FussyZeus 9y ago...which is kind of why people are upset. Things that were possible, i.e. total control over when PC's install updates and how they do them, are now not unless you pony up for a more expensive license. We're not talking Bitlocker or anything here, we're talking control over the system. I agree it's not a typical use case, but it was an understood use case for a very long time. My only real beef with Windows 10 is the overly aggressive update system.
- tokenizerrr 9y agoI understand and agree that it's bullshit. But for normal end users it works fine. And part of me does think that I prefer the majority of the clueless end users to be forced to update. Having to support outdated operating systems and browsers is pretty horrible. And making it harder for botnets to spread is also a pretty good thing. But yes, there should just be a simple setting. Sadly there isn't so we're left to resorting to shitty workarounds.
- HelloNurse 9y agoBut realistically the clueless "normal" end users who should update automatically don't know about group policies and aren't going to use them, not even by mistake.
- alimbada 9y agoI suspend or lock my machines when I "finish" with them so that I can resume where I left off when I come back. Many people, especially developers (which makes up a large part of the audience here on HN), do this. Your "strategy" doesn't work for us.
- conradfr 9y agoAre we back in 1998? I'm always surprised when I meet a developer (or anyone really) that still shutdowns his/her computer each day. What about hibernate or sleep? Funny thing about Windows, they promise since XP that "this time updates will no longer require a reboot". And they never deliver.
- tokenizerrr 9y agoI'm surprised that developers use Windows as their daily driver to be honest. My gaming machine which runs Windows shuts off daily. My work laptop with Linux just sleeps. If you choose to use Windows, you will have to reboot frequently.