The mystery continues: Why are Windows machines automatically updating themselves?
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 15.10.2007
A (slight) update on last week’s report that some Windows users are seeing their Vista PCs automatically update themselves and reboot. From Nate Clinton, a Microsoft Update Program Manager, via the Microsoft Update Product Team blog:
“We have been hearing some questions recently regarding Tuesday’s update release changing automatic updating settings. We have received some logs from customers, and have so far been able to determine that their AU settings were not changed by any changes to the AU client itself and also not changed by any updates installed by AU.
“We are still looking into this to see if another application is making this change during setup with user consent, or if this issue is related to something else. We are continuing the investigation, and as I have more information I will update this post.
“If you are running into this issue, your help would be greatly appreciated. You can contact support, and they can walk you through the steps necessary to provide logs and other useful data.”
So, it doesn’t seem to be Automatic Update (AU) or the patches themselves at fault. So what caused last Past Tuesday’s patches to be installed automatically and machines to be rebooted for a group of users who had chosen not to allow automatic installation of patches — as originally reported on the AeroXperience site? It’s still not clear whether it is Vista only (or also XP) that is affected and whether Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) users have seen the same problem.
More to come when there’s new info to share.
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Comments(11)
ain't yet see bill doing this
hey... i saw this once before. it's called the matrix. great film. sux in real life now
that ms has become mr. smith! aghghghhghghhg someone help us all!
that was fukin hilarious!!!
hahahaaha
damn...
i often wonder why they update the same things always as it certainly fills up the
directory with so much junk.. too..however it is difficult to know which ones you can
delete or not??? marsha j. ledeman
yes, redmond has created a monster who is updating himself.
not so far from
now it will start launching nuclear missiles.
you just failed at the internets, the exit is to your right.
press 1 to nuke usa
press 2 to nuke europe
press 3 to nuke middle east
press 4 to nuke all the above
lmfao
microshit is now trying to cover up the fact that they are f-u_c_kup..
god
damn microshit come out with the f-u_c_king truth.. we all know that you guys are lieing
f-u_c_kup...
no, they don't rock, they are a bad corporation and rip people off left and right, that
95% you just said is a pile of crap and the reason microcrap products are used so much is
because developers are too lazy to develop for other things.
i hate windows,
crashing, freezing, blue screens, but i have no god damn choice to use it because i am a
gamer and no other operating system can play all the games i want except for windows due
to game devs being lazy ass cunts.
ps: you posted your bullcrap comment in a
news article which is about how bad microsoft is.
set your pc up properly dimwit!!
i haven't had a single bluescreen this year
so far and i'm running vista. anyone else that is getting bluescreens regularly.......buy
a fecking console!!
pc's are beyond you :)
odd, how i have heard that one so many times on forums, are you one of the millions that
lack so much computer knowledge that you don't even do anything with your computer that
could make windows go pop, so you think windows is magically a great operating system with
bunnies hopping around.
you sound like the average computer user, an num nut
that doesn't know where the power button is in most cases.
learn how to use
your windows before you go and give someone advice.
games are better on a pc.
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By ChineseMan on 16.10.2007 - 00:10