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How Do You Stop Vista from Automatic Restarts?

by Jay Rhome
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Man, I hate Vista.

Besides installing something else or punching a hole through my computer:

How Do You Stop Vista from Doing Automatic Updates & Restarts?

I have a laptop, and often times I'll simply close the lid without shutting Windows down... only to have it restart on me, often times Word and Excel will even lose the temporary backups.

There must a way to stop this stupid annoying ****

Thanks for the help
#automatic #restarts #stop #vista
  • Profile picture of the author Steve Diamond
    Hi, Jay. I'm another Vista hater, but I'm learning to live with it. Here's how you can turn off automatic updates.
    • Go to Start / Control Panel / Windows Update.
    • Click Change Settings in the left-hand pane.
    • Select an option other than the recommended Install updates automatically.
    • Click OK.
    That should do it. HTH.

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  • Profile picture of the author Jay Rhome
    Thanks! Got it.

    What the F was Microsoft thinking? What could me more annoying to a user than lose his data and have his computer restart without wanting it?
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  • Profile picture of the author Aronya
    Never heard of a computer restarting with the lid closed.
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    • Profile picture of the author l23bc
      Originally Posted by Aronya View Post

      Never heard of a computer restarting with the lid closed.
      me neither i've never experienced this and i hate vista also

      i have vista ultimate and it is so annyoing with the upgraded or security features as it now says my 100gig hard drive is only 3gig left after last security updates,

      any help will be apprecated thanks,
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    • Profile picture of the author Jay Rhome
      Originally Posted by Aronya View Post

      Never heard of a computer restarting with the lid closed.
      It does for me. And as my battery is on its way out and I unplug the power when I close the lid, I often have a window showing my laptop stopped because of low battery...

      Today, it restarted on me when I was using it, and it wouldn't even let me save anything.

      Windows XP never pulled that ****, why MS believed it was a good idea for Vista is beyond me...
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  • Profile picture of the author Aronya
    I've learned to like Vista, actually. Except when it's time to edit settings, etc. Then, it's not so friendly. MS likes to change locations and names of things every time they put out a new version of a program.

    If your 100 gig drive is full, it's not because of Vista. Are you downloading audio or video files? Do you have a good antivirus program? If your drive is filling up for no good reason, I'd be looking for a virus.
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    • Profile picture of the author l23bc
      Originally Posted by Aronya View Post

      I've learned to like Vista, actually. Except when it's time to edit settings, etc. Then, it's not so friendly. MS likes to change locations and names of things every time they put out a new version of a program.

      If your 100 gig drive is full, it's not because of Vista. Are you downloading audio or video files? Do you have a good antivirus program? If your drive is filling up for no good reason, I'd be looking for a virus.
      No i dont use this machine for video or audio at all, just used my kesperspy softwere and no virus found.

      you see i use this machine just to talk on warrior forum and just check paypal, i rather use my macbook pro for anything else as vista is too annoying, still cant work out why the hard drive is saying 97 gig used?

      thanks anyway.
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  • Profile picture of the author Aronya
    Sounds more like a hardware problem. Is this the same computer you had XP on?
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    • Profile picture of the author Jay Rhome
      Nope. My Vista came with my laptop. My XP was/is on my desktop.
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  • Profile picture of the author johnlagoudakis
    Back in 2003 there was a bug in Windows XP that was exploited by a hacker. This virus was so effective that all it needed was a computer to be connected to the internet and it could infect it!

    I can't remember the name of it but what it did was cause the computer to shut down within 60 seconds. You knew if you were infected because a countdown timer would appear on your desktop. Scary stuff...

    Anyway, Microsoft got a lot of heat over this. To their credit, they had released a fix for the bug but because most people didn't update their OS, millions were affected.

    In an effort to avoid the same thing happening in the future, they have enabled Automatic Updates by default.
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  • Profile picture of the author l23bc
    John

    Are you talking about the mydoom virus, I remenber that one very well that took quite a few Xp machines to sleep

    Just wondering if that was the one,

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