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I can't believe this is a thing. I recently switched back to Windows after deciding I wanted to play around with VR development (and honestly, get back into gam
by bitbuilder 6y ago
I can't believe this is a thing. I recently switched back to Windows after deciding I wanted to play around with VR development (and honestly, get back into gaming) and was horrified to see a notice telling me my computer was going to reboot itself in one minute, with no way to abort.
I was right in the middle of something, and my first instinct was to Google how to stop the damn reboot. Of course, my computer was already rebooting by then.
I now know to turn on the setting to postpone updates for a month. But wow, I can't believe such unbelievably hostile UX is the out of the box experience.
(Also, side note, I'm pleasantly surprised at how robust and hassle free the Windows experience has otherwise become. I may even prefer this laptop to my MacBook, which I never thought I'd find myself thinking in a million years.)
- justinclift 6y agoWait until you find out it's updating your motherboard BIOS/firmware (it tells you when it starts doing it!), and there's no way to stop it. Not super great when the whole point of not upgrading to the latest BIOS was because it introduced a critical bug.
- lostmsu 6y agoThis only happens on Microsoft hardware though (or it is not Windows doing the update).
- oses 6y agoUEFI updates can now be delivered by vendors thru Windows Update now : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/bringup/windows-uefi-firmware-update-platform https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/br...
- lostmsu 6y agoGood to know. But do any PC manufacturers do that in practice?
- justinclift 6y agoNot true. I only found out about this when my Acer laptop did it. :(