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Dear Microsoft: It’s 2011, Please Stop Restarting My Computer After Applying Updates

General · March 16, 2011

Remember back in the day maybe late 90’s / early 00’s when you installed Windows automatic updates and you had to restart your PC after they were done? It’s 2011 and yet I still have to restart my machine after some new Windows hotfix downloads, why?

I propose a soft reset instead. All your programs would close, you would be logged out and your machine would apply the updates and then you log back in. It’s a pain in the ass waiting for my PC to restart when it shouldn’t have too.

For some Windows Updates, there are protected files and/or critical system files in use that needs to be replaced, hence requiring a reboot. But surely a soft reset could easily release those in use files to be deleted or replaced?

We’re in 2011 Microsoft, not 1999, I want my restart-less updates and I’m sure lots of other people do too.

Dwayne

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Epoc
Epoc
11 years ago

True !

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Abaf
Abaf
11 years ago

use chrome dude, use chrome

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