MS is the MOST agravating company I have ever had the missfortune to get a OS from. Browsing a web site when IE shuts down, OS shuts down, logs me out. It had downloaded updates and had installed them. NO warning, no request. MS is WAY to arrogent!!!
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- Thread starter jamesphh
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Well welcome to the Vista forum jamesphh.
Prehaps you could tell us the details of your problem.
Right off the bat I would say you have either a driver issue or a peice of your hardware is bad.
But blameing MS or its products is 100% wrong. Many many people use MS OSes everyday with no problems ever. I am one. With 10 personal systems here at home and all but one old box running Vista.
If my 6 year old can run Vista HP without a problem you can to.
Post your system specs, motherboard, CPU, PSU, RAM and so on.
Ranting about MS will just raise your blood pressure. And bill will still = billions.
Prehaps you could tell us the details of your problem.
Right off the bat I would say you have either a driver issue or a peice of your hardware is bad.
But blameing MS or its products is 100% wrong. Many many people use MS OSes everyday with no problems ever. I am one. With 10 personal systems here at home and all but one old box running Vista.
If my 6 year old can run Vista HP without a problem you can to.
Post your system specs, motherboard, CPU, PSU, RAM and so on.
Ranting about MS will just raise your blood pressure. And bill will still = billions.
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- My Ever Changing Whim!
- CPU
- Intel Core 2 Quad 9650
- Motherboard
- Intel DQ35JO
- Memory
- 6GB Corsair DDR2 800
- Graphics Card(s)
- ASUS 9800GT Ultimate
- Sound Card
- Onboard
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 19 inch Sceptre 19 inch Acer
- Screen Resolution
- 1280x1024
- Hard Drives
- 1 320GB Seagate SATA
1 250GB Western Digital SATA
1 200GB Maxtor SATA
2x160GB Western Digitals SATA
1 320GB Seagate External
1 120GB Western Digital External
1 80GB Westen Digital External
1 4GB Crucial Flash Drive for Ready Boost
- PSU
- 600watt Fortron Source
- Case
- Antec
- Cooling
- Fresh Air
- Keyboard
- Microsoft Natural Ergonamic 4000
- Mouse
- Razer Diamondback
- Other Info
- My main rig runs Vista Ultimate or Server 2008. Depending on which Acronis image I decide to load.
Actually I am not ranting. But stating a fact. The OS downloaded updates and installed WITHOUT notification. AND rebooted. I checked on the windows update site and numerous updates were installed today. In fact, when I turned on the computer just now, thee was a tray notification of the updates. Had the same issue with XP before changing computers. Even though I had Win update set to notify, updates were still installed WITHOUT user action. At least under XP they were not installed until I shut down.
Specs:
Q9300
4G ram
500G GD
8800GT 512
Win HP
Specs:
Q9300
4G ram
500G GD
8800GT 512
Win HP
My Computer
Yes you are ranting, yes it CAN be configured to install and reboot or NOT TO...the configuration is up to you. So lets not blame Microsoft when the problem is between the keyboard and chair.
I have mine here (and several other Vista systems at home) set to notify only, and shockingly, it only notifies.
If you have a legit problem, this is a great place to ask for help, if you just wanna handsome frog, I know a few short piers....
My Computer
Please ignore wwoods post, and accept an apology from me on behalf of all the members of these forums.
If Windows Update is downloading and installing updates, and without intervention from you is restarting the computer, try this:
- Open "Windows Update" (Control Pabel, "System and Maintenance", "Windows Update").
- In the left pane, click "Change Settings".
- Adjust the settings to your own preferences. I have mine set to "Download updates but let me choose whether to install them".
- Click "OK". You will need to respond to a UAC prompt.
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Custom Build
- CPU
- AMD Phenom 9600 Quad
- Motherboard
- ASUS MB-M3A32-MVP Deluxe/WiFi
- Memory
- 2 x A-Data 2GB DDR2-800
- Graphics Card(s)
- ASUS ATI Radeon HD 2400PRO
- Monitor(s) Displays
- SAHARA 21"
- Screen Resolution
- 1600x1200
- Hard Drives
- 2 x 80GB Seagate (I)
2 x 120GB Seagate (I/S)
2 x 200GB Seagate (I/S)
2 x 250GB Seagate (I/S)
- PSU
- 800W
- Case
- Thermaltake Tai-Chi
- Cooling
- Tai-Chi Water Cooler
- Keyboard
- Genius
- Mouse
- Logitech
- Internet Speed
- 384kbps
- Other Info
- Currently dual booting between Vista x64 Ultimate Windows 7 BETA x64
Also, note one other thing - when it is downloading and requires a reboot, it *will* notify you without automatically rebooting - but if you happen to be typing and hit the [ENTER] key, or the letter corresponding to the button that allows the reboot to continue, it will reboot the machine.
Now, couple that with a fast machine and it could very easily have appeared and disappeared so fast that you never saw it.
Another thing that happens is a dialog box that opens in the bottom right hand corner asking you to reboot, or allowing you to set a 'delay' period, with 10 minutes, 1 hour or 4 hours being the choices. On that box is also a reboot button - and upon clicking that it disappears promptly. Again, on a fast system, something like this could easily have happened and having never seen it before you would never know something appeared there for an instance.
Now, couple that with a fast machine and it could very easily have appeared and disappeared so fast that you never saw it.
Another thing that happens is a dialog box that opens in the bottom right hand corner asking you to reboot, or allowing you to set a 'delay' period, with 10 minutes, 1 hour or 4 hours being the choices. On that box is also a reboot button - and upon clicking that it disappears promptly. Again, on a fast system, something like this could easily have happened and having never seen it before you would never know something appeared there for an instance.
My Computers
System One System Two
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- Operating System
- Windows 10 Pro X64 Insider Preview (Skip Ahead) latest build
- Manufacturer/Model
- The Beast Model V (homebrew)
- CPU
- Intel Core i7 965 EE @ 3.6 GHz
- Motherboard
- eVGA X58 Classified 3 (141-GT-E770-A1)
- Memory
- 3 * Mushkin 998981 Redline Enhanced triple channel DDR3 4 GB CL7 DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3-12800)
- Graphics Card(s)
- eVGA GeForce GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0 (04G-P4-3979-KB)
- Sound Card
- Realtek HD Audio (onboard)
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 2 * Lenovo LT2323pwA Widescreeen
- Screen Resolution
- 2 * 1920 x 1080
- Hard Drives
- SanDisk Ultra SDSSDHII-960G-G25 960 GB SATA III SSD (System)
Crucial MX100 CT256MX100SSD1 256GB SATA III SSD (User Tree)
2 * Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA II Mech. HD
Seagate ST1500DL001-9VT15L Barracuda 7200.12 1.5 TB S
- PSU
- Thermaltake Black Widow TX TR2 850W 80+ Bronze Semi-Mod ATX
- Case
- ThermalTake Level 10 GT (Black)
- Cooling
- Corsair H100 (CPU, dual 140 mm fans on radiator) + Air (2 *
- Keyboard
- Logitech G15 (gen 2)
- Mouse
- Logitech MX Master (shared)
- Internet Speed
- AT&T Lightspeed Gigabit duplex
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- Operating System
- Sabayon Linux (current, weekly updates, 5.1.x kernel)
- Manufacturer/Model
- Lenovo ThinkPad E545
- CPU
- AMD A6-5350M APU
- Motherboard
- Lenovo
- Memory
- 8 GB
- Graphics card(s)
- Radeon HD (Embedded)
- Sound Card
- Conextant 20671 SmartAudio HD
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Lenovo 15" Matte
- Screen Resolution
- 1680 * 1050
- Hard Drives
- INTEL Cherryvill 520 Series SSDSC2CW180A 180 GB SSD
- PSU
- Lenovo
- Case
- Lenovo
- Cooling
- Lenovo
- Mouse
- Logitech MX Master (shared) | Synaptics TouchPad
- Keyboard
- Lenovo
- Internet Speed
- AT&T LightSpeed Gigabit Duplex