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Re:New XPS 13 Developer Edition Lands in Europe, United Stat... by vacri on Sunday November 27, 2016 @04:00PM (#13051501)
>* I'm not in love with Windows, but as long as you don't go out of your way to screw it up it makes a pretty decent bootloader*

So, I've been running win10 on my games machine for about ten months now, and there's been two 'reboot now or in 15 minutes, no other choices' updates that I've seen, and a sizable number of times I've come back to it having autorebooted to a login prompt. Usually I'm just gaming, but I've had it reboot with open documents.

I could probably turn this off somewhere, but as it's not a mission-critical computer, it's still amusing to me.

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Re:New XPS 13 Developer Edition Lands in Europe, United Stat... by emp_zealoth on Sunday November 27, 2016 @05:03PM (#13051847)
Nope, the only reliable way to block it (that i know of) is to break reboot service by taking away permissions to run or edit it from your own OS

Possibly it will get overturned by autoupdate after a while anyway

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Re:New XPS 13 Developer Edition Lands in Europe, United Stat... by cgvgffyv on Sunday November 27, 2016 @05:20PM (#13051947)
Oh for Christ sake, just disable the Windows Update service and stop complaining. Done. No updates until you turn it back on.

It's two clicks.

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Re:New XPS 13 Developer Edition Lands in Europe, United Stat... by JohnBooty on Monday November 28, 2016 @10:12AM (#13055869)
Hahaha wow. Well, that's good to know. That would be a possible non-starter for a machine actually intended for "real work."
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