WindowsXP SP2 danger! *geek topic*
Oct. 14th, 2004 09:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
growler_southTo my delight I came to work this morning and found my PC at the login screen. Bugger, I thought, must have been a power failure, I wonder how far the render got before it died?
Login and Windows' new 'security centre' cheerily informs me that "new updates were installed and your computer was restarted"
WHAT?!?!
The old Automatic Updater would install updates, but then sit there waiting for you to confirm the restart. Now Windows thinks its ok to just shut down your PC any old time it likes, regardless of what processes are running at the time. Does XP Server have this 'feature'?
And no, I cant use a Mac, I like getting a new PC every 6 months.
UPDATE/CLARIFICATION:
After much argument here at work: Yes, I know you can turn it off (or to 'download updates but ask before installing') that isnt my problem. My problem is that they changed the default behaviour. I have ALWAYS had auto update set to 'install automatically' and, pre SP2, it never rebooted without asking. Now it does. And now I have to go and change the settings on a number of computers to 'Download and prompt for installation' and educate the users to click 'ok' instead of 'close' when prompted.
How about a "dont restart my fucking machine without asking first" option? Registry hack, anyone?
Login and Windows' new 'security centre' cheerily informs me that "new updates were installed and your computer was restarted"
WHAT?!?!
The old Automatic Updater would install updates, but then sit there waiting for you to confirm the restart. Now Windows thinks its ok to just shut down your PC any old time it likes, regardless of what processes are running at the time. Does XP Server have this 'feature'?
And no, I cant use a Mac, I like getting a new PC every 6 months.
UPDATE/CLARIFICATION:
After much argument here at work: Yes, I know you can turn it off (or to 'download updates but ask before installing') that isnt my problem. My problem is that they changed the default behaviour. I have ALWAYS had auto update set to 'install automatically' and, pre SP2, it never rebooted without asking. Now it does. And now I have to go and change the settings on a number of computers to 'Download and prompt for installation' and educate the users to click 'ok' instead of 'close' when prompted.
How about a "dont restart my fucking machine without asking first" option? Registry hack, anyone?
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Date: 2004-10-13 02:31 pm (UTC)(In a nutshell- *what* IT department?)
XP SP2's default behaviour, with "automatically download and install updates' selected, resulted in a few machines rebooting overnight. No-one's fiddled with any settings, this is a default SP2 install over a default XP Pro install.
I did however find this wee gem today:
No automatic restart with logged on users...
To prevent Automatic Updates from restarting a computer while users are logged on, the administrator can create the NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers registry value in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Win dows\WindowsUpdate\AU. The value is a DWORD and must be either 0 (false) or 1 (true). If this value is changed while the computer is in a restart pending state, it will not take effect until the next time an update requires a restart.
sounds promising...