Reason to hate Microsoft, #63388432

I got home from a late nite bike ride (hey, it's cooler and there's less traffic) about an hour ago. To find that Windows 2000 was just finishing an "update" I'd note asked it to do.

So now every 5-10 minutes I get a window popping up telling me that if I don't click it, it'll restart the system for me in 5 minutes.

This is highly annoying because it means the last update I *did* approve changed my settings for automatic update. Without asking or notifying me ogf the change.

Since I usually have close to 20 windows open with various things a restart without my knowledge would mess up a lot of things. But MS persists in claiming that it has the right to do this sort of thing "for our own good".

I'm just waiting for them to get hit with major damages when some Windows based control system does a restart and hurts someone.

Neither invisibly changing the setting nor forcing updates is anything *remotely* close to proper behavior in an OS.