Microsoft justifies Vista's forcing of unwanted reboots

August 15, 2007, 11:49am PDT | Length: 00:04:17

ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind reinvestigates a reboot feature in Microsoft's Vista operating system that he doesn't like. This time he uncovers a discrepancy between signing in as a standard user versus signing in as an administrative one.

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Reboot, caused by update

I was annoyed by Windows update rebooting without ever seeing an option to delay, or postpone. Update just closed all applications, not saving anythin and rebooted.
robertmcdowell2@...
12th Mar 2008
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RE: Microsoft justifies Vista's forcing of unwanted reboots

Hmm, it would be nice to know the date of this issue, I have a similar thinkpad but so far have not run into this. thinkpad r61e 2gig ram vista premium with all current updates.
wirechief
2nd Apr 2008
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Desperate?

C:\>runas /user:administrator "shutdown -a"
cmjrees
24th Apr 2008
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RE: Microsoft justifies Vista's forcing of unwanted reboots

The administrator can set the default to download but not intall automatically. If this is done, the administrator can do the install & reboot at his convenience and not interrupt anyone else who uses the computer who doesn't have administrator privileges.
JAWSr
16th Nov 2009
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