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- Jan 13, 2005
for you maybe, but I wasn't getting at speed and some people don't always want to do it that way or there is another preferred way aside from what we are talking about here, its just another option to get to some of the settings.
and since most of what I can remember about operating systems is old stuff (95, 98, 3.11, dos) I cant remember the new stuff so this helps. heck I still double click the top left corner of windows to close them like 3.11
any way back to the update thing, I got a strange "notification"
since I did the gpedit.msc thing I mentioned earlier and set it to notify but do not install updates it hasn't been doing any and I have just been ignoring the corner of my screen about the updates.
today (about 5 minutes ago) I started the computer up to pay the cable bill (for the interwebs!) and I get a full screen lock out with a green (theme colored) notification in the middle telling me there are updated to be installed.
I try and click away from it back to the browser, because I can see it still its just darkened a bit because its not the window in focus any more and it wont let me. ding ding ding. when ever I would try to click away I didn't want to click the notification it self so I tried the keyboard and escape worked, got me out of it, but then brought up the fake "settings" window with windows update and then I just closed it again.
I shoulda screen capped it but I panicked in the way of "you dirty sob's". i'm sure it'll happen again.
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got a chance to finally click on this since I am now not at work on the toilet and I find it interesting that #1 is disabling the service upon startup, almost what I suggested earlier.
the more pressure and publicity that this gets I am sure they'll change it. especially if they keep pushing updated that break more than fix
and since most of what I can remember about operating systems is old stuff (95, 98, 3.11, dos) I cant remember the new stuff so this helps. heck I still double click the top left corner of windows to close them like 3.11
any way back to the update thing, I got a strange "notification"
since I did the gpedit.msc thing I mentioned earlier and set it to notify but do not install updates it hasn't been doing any and I have just been ignoring the corner of my screen about the updates.
today (about 5 minutes ago) I started the computer up to pay the cable bill (for the interwebs!) and I get a full screen lock out with a green (theme colored) notification in the middle telling me there are updated to be installed.
I try and click away from it back to the browser, because I can see it still its just darkened a bit because its not the window in focus any more and it wont let me. ding ding ding. when ever I would try to click away I didn't want to click the notification it self so I tried the keyboard and escape worked, got me out of it, but then brought up the fake "settings" window with windows update and then I just closed it again.
I shoulda screen capped it but I panicked in the way of "you dirty sob's". i'm sure it'll happen again.
edit:
Found an interesting how-to on fixing some of the automatic update issues. http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonk...dates/?utm_campaign=yahootix&partner=yahootix
got a chance to finally click on this since I am now not at work on the toilet and I find it interesting that #1 is disabling the service upon startup, almost what I suggested earlier.
the more pressure and publicity that this gets I am sure they'll change it. especially if they keep pushing updated that break more than fix
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