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Useful, I may purloin that. I don't object at all to regular reboots for security updates, but I do object to forced reboots. Windows not being safe to leave a
by dspillett 7y ago
Useful, I may purloin that.
I don't object at all to regular reboots for security updates, but I do object to forced reboots. Windows not being safe to leave alone for 24 hours without risk of it rebooting itself makes it no better than a toy OS in my mind. And it isn't as if it is just the one monthly reboot around patch Tuesday plus the occasional emergency patch: I think I can count on one hand the number of months in the last ~two years when my main Windows machine hasn't needed to reboot twice or more in a month.
Actually I do object to regular reboots if I'm more honest, at least as many as Windows seems to need. The fact that just about any security update requires a full system reboot instead of many of them being applicable with just restarting component services smacks of bad design.