And then if it has any installs pending when I shut down at night, it will know enough to give me the “Install Updates and shut down” option?
The only reason I don’t use Ubuntu is that I tend to install a bunch of games, and I got tired of having to coax Wine into running them. Well, that and not getting full-screen flash to work on some websites–the Linux flash plugin doesn’t like DRM. And Adobe fucked up the Windows plugin so it wouldn’t work on my Wine configuration. And no matter what I did to Wine, I could never get it to fix.
I was just installing Windows so my sister could play the Sims, but I found myself spending more time in Windows than Ubuntu. It was nice having little things just work.
Funny thing about this. If you choose to put it in sleep mode instead of choosing Install Updates and Shut Down, it will install the updates anyway and reboot automatically. This bugged the hell out of me because for a while when it came back up it couldn’t find my home wifi network without another reboot, but they seem to have fixed it now.
EABOD? Eat A Bowl Of Dirt? Every Asshole Bites Out Dents?
You can run Windows inside Ubuntu using VirtualBox. Just use Windows for the games, and Ubuntu for everything else. VirtualBox boots Windows XP in 5 seconds, as well, on my machine.
Virtualbox can be iffy with video driver support, at least the last time that I used it. How’s the performance these days in DirectX/OpenGL games?
start> run> cmd> net stop wuauserv
Or just go to the Services control panel applet and find Automatic Updates and stop the service. Disable it if you have nothing to lose by never getting any MS Updates ever again, but that is up to you.
Eat A Bag Of Dicks, usually.
And then if you don’t keep answering, it will reboot your PC on its own. To stop both the nagging and the reboot, I followed the following directions for a registry hack and it worked just fine.
Yes, yes, but what kind of dicks? Are we talking about people dicks, or animal ones? The former is more disturbing because they’d be harder to come by; you could pick up a bag of steer or pig dicks at a slaughter house, but how do you get a whole bag of human ones? And eat as in deep throat them, or literally consume them like other animal proteins? It’s a very confusing insult.
As for automatic updates, why do updates you tell MS to “hide” keep reappearing? I’ve told it to stick its IE8 update at least six times, but it keeps reappearing on the list of important updates.
It’s very much a YMMV with hardware. Right now, my lappy is dual boot WinXP (for games only) and Ubuntu (for everything else). The only glitch with Ubuntu that I have is sleep/hibernate/wake support which is totally random in behavior. On the plus side, Ubuntu cold boots faster than XP wakes from hibernation, so I just shut down completely instead of hibernate.
Back to topic, I just fired up one of our desktops that I only turn on once a month or so, and before I could use it…bloop: Java update, bloop: Firefox, bloop: Flash, bloop: Adobe…and finally the friggin’ Windows update which forced a reboot. Took me a damn half hour just to check an email.
Because they hate us, and just like in “Gaslight” (or was it “…Baby Jane”?) they’re trying to drive us crazy. Then they can take over the world and rule.
I’d do that, but I always figured there was a reason Windows wanted to restart–like the update might foobar certain security measures until Windows was rebooted. If not, I’ll try the hack.
I must admit, that was one thing I liked about Wine. Rebooting it takes much less time than rebooting Windows. But, it even ran Psychonauts too slow, and that’s supposed to be a low-requirement game. I can’t imagine using Virtualbox and virtualizing the entire system would be any faster. It sure wasn’t when I foobared my Ubuntu partition trying to Virtualbox it in Windows. (Luckily, my home partition is fine.)
All it does is remove the nags. It will work just the same to reboot (or shut down and restart later) manually as it will to do the reboot 'cause it’s prompting you every fifteen fucking minutes.
Just an FYI though. The hack only works for Windoze updates.
Mcafee/Norton/blah will still do their own thing. One of the reasons I told Mcafee to kiss off.
More importantly, it stops you’re PC from re-booting without your permission. That can be more than just an annoyance if you’re working on something and step away from your PC for a few minutes.
Right. Perhaps a better way to phrase what I meant is, it returns control of the reboot entirely to you.