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Chris Maunder wrote: When you ask me if I want to restart my machine and I say "no thanks: later is better"
You do realise that they only give you this 'choice' because somebody somewhere wrote almost exactly the same post as this eons ago, right? They don't actually want you to get above yourself and actually take it. Would have thought a man of your standing would have known that by now! 
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Working is SOooo Windows 3.1
I'd rather be phishing!
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You're using professional right?
Start gpedit.
Expand Computer Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ Windows Components \ Windows Update.
Double click Configure Automatic Updates, enable the policy and set it to your preferences.
<edit>Actually, go to the ADServer and set the whole domain to some more sensible values</edit>
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Shirley you can set the timing of an update and do it out of normal working hours. I realise normal working hours may not apply but 3am should be a reasonably safe bet!
I only have 10 on the home PC which only gets worked on the weekends so I have not seen this, or any other, issue.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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You can, but I foolishly assumed the "not right now" would be less trigger excitable than it was. It seems it's a change from previous behaviour.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Windows is rapidly devolving as an OS on which to do development (even for Windows). It's been evolving into a some sort of an OS for the masses, especially since the advent of Metro. I'm still on W7 and VS2012, which seems like the last of the stable releases. Sure, I have a VM with W10 and VS2015, but I don't do any real work on that.
Marc
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I think the whole point of Windows is that it's an OS for the masses.
Marc Clifton wrote: have a VM with W10 and VS2015, but I don't do any real work on that
How come? What's blocking you?
I'm actually OK with Win10. It's a far cry from Win8, and seemingly faster, more polished than 7 (though it still has masses of Win7 - in fact Win95 - leftovers that need to be better integrated).
I tried moving to MacOS but if you want to talk about devolving then we could go on for hours about that. I take particular offense at certain Apple execs claiming Apple's OS bugs seem bigger than they are because more people use MacOS now. If a bug occurs in a forest and no one screams...?
Maybe Ubuntu? 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Ubuntu is the sh-t, it helps preserving your mental health. Granted, my customers are using Windows, so I have to develop for it. So I bought VMWare Workstation for Linux and use a lot of Windows VMs. That way I can minimise my exposure to Windows.
Developing in Windows nowadays feels like being stuck in the sewers and waiting for someone to flush their toilet, an altogether not pleasant experience.
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Chris Maunder wrote: How come? What's blocking you?
I don't like to upset my development environment with a whole new OS, so what I'll usually do is wait until my hardware gets a little stale and then buy a whole new desktop / laptop. Since I recently purchased a nice laptop but opted for W7, I'm not ready yet to upgrade the hardware, so I'll wait.
Besides, reading the posts here, it seems VS2015 has some significant problems, and W10 is still hit or miss for folks.
Chris Maunder wrote: Maybe Ubuntu?
I've got Debian and Ubuntu VM's. I haven't found a GUI desktop that I like, they're all clunky. If JetBrains made an IDE for C#, that might change things.
Marc
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I suppose nothing newsworthy has been discussed in the last 5 days, mostly complaints about a free upgrade or something...yawn...back to work. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Either that, or nobody's selected the "News" option when posting a new message.
Satisfied now?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Ah! That explains it. Thank You, I've learned something today! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Looks like it only works for top-level messages, not for replies. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Wow! A keyboard smasher. Remember when all games were like that?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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If you rang Sea World today, would your call be recorded for training porpoises?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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No, that's just a whale of a tale... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Sounds fishy to me
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Rats! You beat me to it. Am a little slow today. Not enough coffee. 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Did you know that when their aquatic mammals die they play My Heart Will Go On as a tribute to the Sea Lion Dying?
veni bibi saltavi
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I called.
All I got was a slap with a large trout 
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Oh Cod!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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That smells of dead fish to me.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Responding to this shore tide me up for a while.
However, rather than speak gill of you I'll finish here. (in otter words, bye).
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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