In article <47fe4fba$1@news.povray.org>, dne### [at] sanrrcom says...
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
> > Yeah. I need to adjust mine back to that. Got annoyed with having that
 
> > show up, when the patch took hours to download. Dialup remember... It
 
> > was easier to "let it" install and do things, than have to deal with it
 
> > when I finally realized it "had" patched. lol
> 
> No. Set it to download, then inform you. Then you can just turn off the
 
> machine, and it'll install the patches as it shuts down.
> 
You shut off your computer? Didn't know you could do that... lol But 
seriously, mine is always on and up, since I work odd hours, may be 
running things I need to keep going, or even downloading a torrent, 
etc., all of which are a bit hard to do if you turn it off all the time. 
The only time I ever reboot, never mind turn it off, is to 
update/upgrade something, or there is a big storm over the city and 
leaving it on risks frying it.

> >> Go to the control panel, under automatic updates. If you want it to 
> >> reboot after installing patches, tell it when and on what day of the
 
> >> week in the drop-downs. Otherwise, set it to "download updates but let
 
> >> me pick when to install them."  Or "notify me but dont download them."
> >>
> > What is it with people that use Windows that they tell you where to 
> > change a setting in the control panel, by referencing it as though its
 
> > an option *in* the main page of the control panel? They do it on 
> > websites too. The real method is like, "open bing in the control panel
 
> > and select bong, then pick the ding tab.", but all they give you is "Go
 
> > to Ding in the control panel and change these setting." I just don't ge
t 
> > it...
> > 
> > And don't bother being more specific. I figured out where it was. lol
> 
> The icon at the top level of the control panel is called "automatic 
> updates". It's a one page panel with three radio buttons. I fail to see
 
> how my description was confusing?
> 
No it isn't. On mine its "Performance and Maintainence", then "System", 
in which there is a tab which is called "Automatic Updates". Now, if you 
have a link to the "systems" control panel on your desktop, like someone 
that makes changes there a lot might do, then yes, it would be. ;)

This is, of course, one of the fun things about Windows. Nothing is ever 
where you, never mind they, left it. lol

> >>> Instead it keeps popping up 
> >>> ever 5-10 minutes to ask you, "Heh! You done yet. Want to reboot?" No
 
> >>> frell you!!
> >> If you let it get to that point at all, you can stop it by (surprise)
 
> >> stopping the windows update service.
> >>
> > Which I don't really want to do...
> 
> Uh, why not? Note I didn't say disable it. I said stop it. Then it wont
 
> bug you, until you reboot, which is all it's going to do until you 
> reboot anyway.
> 
Well, yeah, that is true. Not something that would have normally 
occurred to me though. Mute point now anyway, its now set back to, 
"Download, but don't install until requested." 

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    }
    call functional_code();
  }
  else
    call crash_windows();
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