Re:Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update
by parrellel on Monday May 15, 2017 @12:12PM
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God, it's even worse for academic / engineering use.
Nothing is better than running a simulation for twenty hours and waking up to a nice blank desktop. /s
Re:Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update
by CydeWeys on Monday May 15, 2017 @01:44PM
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Wow, yeah, that'd be a nightmare. I hadn't even considered that use case. I was just thinking of typical desktop use cases.
In a similar vein, imagine that you're ill-advisedly using a Windows server to host your node for cryptocurrency mining, and then it restarts when you're not around. You could lose serious amounts of money from that.
Re:Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update
by torrent-of-ions on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @07:34AM
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Why are you even using Windows for this?
And not restoring jack shit. I wouldn't mind Windows Update so much if it could competently restart my applications and restore my Explorer windows, but the only thing it does every fucking time is make the taskbar icons disappear until I force-restart the Explorer process.
Though I would still mind it a lot for the insanely slow and unhelpful update process at shutdown, every update requires half an hour of shutdown as the machine does who the fuck knows what with an unhelpful throbber telling you it's at 30% of some arbitrary process you've no idea about and which looks exactly as if the entire thing had crashed.