Blah you, SP2
Photo Matt got hit by the same design flaw I did last night. Windows installed a security update and asked to restart. I told it no, I’d restart when I was good and ready, thanks. Unlike SP1, Windows gets angry and petulant and asks to restart EVERY TEN MINUTES. I was getting tired of pressing “Later” but was going to bed soon anyway, so I left some work open and went to sleep. I got up in the morning to see… my Linux screen saver? Eh?
If you don’t tell XP SP2 to restart later (because you’re not there), it decides to restart for you. It does NOT save any open work, nor does it shut down cleanly. This is incredibly flawed from a design point of view.
Bleh, I’m back to SuSE for awhile. I need to go turn off updates and never do them again. I don’t remember what all I had up but I know there were a couple documents and at least one e-mail. Not to mention any messages I might have gotten over the night. Boo.
You can turn it off by following these steps.
