So last Friday I started a long migration process on my workstation at work. When the day was getting near an end and the weekend started knocking on my door I saw that the migration process was still running. Thus I decided it would be best to leave my workstation on and check the results after the weekend. I turned off my monitors and went home to drink beer.
This morning I got at work again, turned on my screen. Ah the migration had a crash… bummer.. Hey Windows installed some updates and is asking me if I am ok with restarting my computer. Of course I am not ok with that! I want to check out what went wrong first so I choose "Restart Later". There we go, let's go check out those migration results…
Approximately 5 minutes later the update manager reminds me again that there are pending updates. I am kinda boggled.. It's been about 2 years now since service pack 3 for Windows XP was released if I remember correct. Apparently they never found this bug before, but now that they found it it seems that every minute I wait without rebooting will make my machine prone to be used by elite hackers who will then use it for whatever.
I think to myself: 'ok apparently this update is very important so I better finish what I am doing and reboot ASAP'. So after pressing "Restart Later" for a second time I kind of forgot about that update manager again. So next thing you know I'm typing an email about the results of the migration and there is the update manager again, it steals my focus while I'm in the middle of typing an email so fairly short after it pops up I type the letter 'n' which I was using somewhere in my sentence and shortly after that it was followed by a lot of cursing and a nice "Windows is shutting down…" message.
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYY?
Hi there,
Nice blog, I just stumbled upon it and I am already a fan.
Yes that 'Restart now or Later?' dialog is near criminal.
In Vista you get to set how much later, up to a miximum of 4 hours.
My tip: Press no button at all. Instead, move the dialog out of the way and forget about it. I use hibernate a lot and sometimes hibernate my system for nearly a week before eventually, when *I* want it, shut down. The dialog will move back onto the desktop after locking and unlocking the system, but that's not nearly as annoying.