Should Vista be able to force an unwanted reboot when it wants to?
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 3.8.2007
Like many departments within many companies, today was a day when our department got together and did some online slide slidesharing.
We use Microsoft’s NetMeeting but I don’t use Internet Explorer and my one attempt at at getting the slides on my screen (there’s a way to view the Web only version of the slides in Firefox) froze my system up. I had to CTRL-ATL-DEL to the Windows Task Manager and had to kill every instance of Firefox. Unfortunately, I didn’t capture this on video. Not that it would have mattered. At the time, I was using one of my more heavily polluted (software, downloadware, all-sorts-of-ware, etc.) systems and it constantly misbehaves on me.
Fortunately however, I captured something else on video: it was Vista telling me to save my work because it was going to reboot. But this wasn’t any old reboot. This was a you-have-no-choice reboot. I had stepped away from the system for a few minutes and when I came back, it basically told me I had 1 minute and 30 seconds to save my work because it was going reboot itself, no matter what. Luckily, our camera was sitting there on its tripod (we were about to tape something else) when this happened and we caught it on tape. As you can see in the video, although the dialog appears to have some options to postpone the reboot, I can’t get into those options. They’re grayed-out.
It was at least four minutes (if not longer) until the system had finished rebooting itself. My question is, what if I couldn’t afford a reboot at that moment? What if I was in the middle of some process that hadn’t been completed and wanted to keep the machine running until I had a chance to finish that process. Like viewing a shared slide-show? Or a Web transaction? Or imagine if I just didn’t want it shut down at that point. Does Vista really know better than me? Should it be permitted to lock me out as it prepares to do a forced reboot? Fellow ZDNet Matt Conner who was operating the camera at the time was pretty stunned and you can hear him in the background saying “What if you had something going on?” It’s something he has apparently never seen on his Mac.
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Comments(15)
who cares. so you save your work and then reboot. but no, u dorks wasted time taping
it....who cares!!!!!!!!!!!!
here we go again with more of this phone home m$ controls everything s*it.
abort the damn reboot with cmd line shutdown -a
some of us do things other than write emails to grandma. things that we may not be able
to have interrupted
"who cares" is an idiot. oh boy is also an idiot, first not many people know that
command and second how do you know it would have worked on vista?
huh ? my windows update asks me to restart or postpone the update..maybe he accidently
tapped the return button when the dialog popped up..and did not postpone the
reboot..idiot.
"what the ?" are you a complete moron or just a prikk?
postpone was greyed
out. can't you see?
dork.
not the first time, try the shutdown -a command, anw fukc microsoft and it's
products!!!!!
this was always the behavior of windows systems if you are logged in with standard user
privileges and not an admin account...
nothing new you noobs :Þ
this is what happens when a system critical process has crashed, atleast it gives you
some time to save your on going work.
im not a f%cking idiot mr. internet hard ass. its amazing how much shit you dorks talk
when your typing to a screen. but, still, who cares?
if your shitty system didn't crash out it's rpc service it would not have done tat...
do a freshload, and stfu...
shutdown.exe -a aborts confirmed working u know what stop winging people all have
different needs, what if you are doing a business presentation -- whoops iv gota restart
jst wait
think of this.. your doing work on a computer showing it to a big company confrance..
this is very important.. but windows must reboot and give you no choice.. thats going to
look very pro if your computer is rebooting and you can't do nothing about it.....
did you ever think of hmmm maybe if your doing a business meeting, you shouldn't be
using one with tons of "warez" on it? you seem to insinuate that you have another
computer, so why would you use the *ucked up on? idiot.
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By Who cares? on 04.08.2007 - 02:08