I'm ANNOYed with Win7Pro because of ......

[raygg]

AUTOMATIC UPDATING
I reluctantly replaced xppro with w7pro 6 months ago to avoid falling behind the lingo of other pc users, especially since part of my activities is to assist others with pc issues. I hate w7 auto updates - but I realize MSFT cannot get it right -EVER- and will forever send one memory hogging, space stealing, shutdown preventing, unscheduled automated update on top of another to keep band-aiding a basically flawed OS that keeps tripping over itself with its complexity.

I just found out about the gpedit.msc command that brings you to " Computer/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Windows Update" where there are more useless and overly complicated combinations of update policies than I EVER wanted on a computer. Siting thru this unnecessarily complicated and intertwined set o updating policies which regulate how often, when to update, how long to wait for a delayed update etc etc makes me think someone sold this bloated feature set to impress some MST development manager to show how smart they were - not for the purpose of creating a well designed product that is easy to administer and use.

My needs are simple - give me an alert 2 times monthly to update all the hacker holes, security problems (real and imagined), oops development bloat fixes, and undesired automated junk that MSFT slips into the updates - and then schedule my laptop to run it at 3am, hopefully waking up my laptop to do it.

I NEVER want the laptop to send me a message that it cannot complete shutdown in order to complete installing updates which I had no idea it was about to install - and I NEVER want a sudden shutdown in order to install some registry update or other update which happened recently.

I would REALLY appreciate it if someone could tell me how to accomplish these simply requests so I do not have to be so ANNOYED with auto updates and shutdowns and delays in shutdowns.

Thank you very very much in advance.

 

[NortonES2]

Change the automatic update settings to "Auto download and notify for install" then you can choose when to install the updates and reboot \ shutdown to suit you.

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If it doesn't leak oil it must be empty!!

 

[hairlessupportmonkey]

Turn off updates and run wsusoffline. You could then create your own task schedule to launch the app a couple of times a month.

ACSS - SME
General Geek

 

[goombawaho]

Except that you would also have to run an update on the WSUS data store periodically whether it was somehow automated or manually kicking it off. Otherwise - NO UPDATES to be installed.

 

[rclarke250]

Stop supporting windows, and give Linux a try, because M$FT will never get better.

 

[flyboytim]

Windows 8 will give you 2 days after updates before it will automatically restart:

That should be enough for most people to finish their game of solitaire.

 

[raygg]

I'm not sure any of those answers really help - how about this - how do I set up a bat file or a similar self-notification to automatically check for updates every 14 days and send me an alert that updates have been checked?
Regarding Linux - I also use Linux but I still have to lie in the MSFT world as well.

 

[rclarke250]

You could turn off auto updates, than go to administrative tools, and use task scheduler to set it up. As for your never statements, it's never going to happen. Some updates need to happen after you start the shutdown procedure, so it can take those files and services and shut them off,before replacing them, just easier for MS to do it at shutdown, and really it makes sense. Now if you really can't wait for the updates for some reason, take control of the shutdown, you can opt to shutdown without applying the updates.

 

[raygg]

My laptop goes with me to meetings and presentations I give. On a few such occasions when I attempted to shuitdown and go I got the message not to shut down because updates were being applied. It's THIS type of update timing out of my control I highly object to ever being allowing to occur.

 

[rmgates]

It's THIS type of update timing out of my control I highly object to ever being allowing to occur"
But of course, prior planning prevents poor performance.
If I go on a roadtrip, I check my tires and oil BEFORE i go.
And as with meetings and such, I check my laptop condition and presentations long BEFORE I walk into it.
No difference. just my 2 cents.

 

[strongm]

>On a few such occasions when I attempted to shuitdown and go I got the message not to shut down because updates were being applied

Um .... if you configure Windows Update to "Download updates for me but let me choose when to install them" should avoid this issue.