Last Night I am writing some meeting minutes for a job meeting this morning. I Dave them to the desktop thinking I am going to print them this morning. upon shutdown the computer tells me it has 9 updates won't power it down. Ok no problem I am going to bed anyway.
THIS MORNING IT WILL NOT BOOT. It gets to the win7 flag thing and just sits there. I am so annoyed with Microsoft at the moment.
It is not the fact that I will spend another $1000 on another computer. (I think Microsoft is in cahoots with the manufactures) It is the fact I am going to have to go to a meeting and look completely unprepared. I had looking like and idiot with clients. What this is going to cost me is allot more than the price of a lap top. (that I may smash to bits)
That is all.
Dean out.. . . ...
That is why I turn off automatic updates and make them manual. Windows will tell me there are updates, but it is my choice to download and install. If something important is happening the next time I need the computer, I don't do the update until I'm done.
^What he said.
Or give MS a size 12 in the arse and install a real OS.
CGLockRacer wrote:
That is why I turn off automatic updates and make them manual. Windows will tell me there are updates, but it is my choice to download and install. If something important is happening the next time I need the computer, I don't do the update until I'm done.
Plus eleventy billion. Automatic Update will ask 3 times while you are working on something, if you tell it 'no' three times it will then work in the tray all by itself, then the computer will restart with no warning. I lost half of an important document that way. So I turned the son a beech off.
Can you reboot and start in 'safe' mode? If so, there's something called 'Startup Repair' that should get it going again.
I was able to get the screen up that asks for the various boot options and booted in safe mode. I then did a system restore to Monday (I do a manual restore point every Monday).
Things are running again but it is wanting to update again. No frig-gin way!
I have it set to download the updates automatically but I have to manually update it. That is why it updated on shutdown last night I figured since I was going to bed it was a good time to do it.
DrBoost
SuperDork
2/16/12 7:39 a.m.
My work PC is set up so I cannot block auto updates. EVERY time it updates I have to go to the IT weasel to have them backdate my wireless card drivers because it'll lock up the computer.
Reason #928 that my personal computer is a mac.
I had to do start up repair on mine this morning too. I finally got it to work.
Edit: So how do you know what to dl and what not too?
My wife's desk top computer suddenly shut down and now won't even power up. Is this an automatic update problem, or do we have a hardware? She was on the computer and it was working fine. Went downstairs to talk to our daughter and when she went back, it was making a tic tic tic sound and everything is black.
Sounds more like a hardware problem to me, at least the way you describe it...
My father's croaked after the bios were updated a few weeks back. Its a Toshiba. Coincidence?
This is one of the major reasons I now own a Mac, although I'm stuck with a Windows machine at work. I've had exactly the same problem with my previous PCs, and what's worse, we live in a rural area with no access to high speed internet, and the autoupdate nonsense would monopolize the dialup phone line for 6 - 8 hours doing an update! Grrrrr.
