i am running vista sp1 x64. i installed this integrated about three weeks ago onto a brand new system. yesterday i got the monthly prompt for windows updates. my setting for AU were "check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them". recomended updaes and 'use windows update' are both selected.

four security updates for office came in (kb's 946974, 946983, 947801, and 947945), a dell monitor driver, silverlight (kb946609), and the MSRT for march(kb890830). none of these were even critical.

since i am usually busy doing something, i postponed the update message for four hours. i left work before i got it again.

at 3:00am my computer woke itself up and rebooted. the event log entry looks like this:



the only info i can find regarding anything similar is from here:
http://blogs.technet.com/mu/archive/2007/1...-web-posts.aspx

other posts linking to the reason code 0x80020002 mention winlogon and WSUS overiding GP, but that is not the case here as there are no LPO set on this system and it is not part of a domain.

this is not cool since i have mutliple vm's running as well as open active documents that all were shut down without me allowing the shutdown to happen, at the same time that it changed my update settings back to auto.

has anyone else had this problem? does anyone know a way to avoid it?

Exactly why I NEVER use auto update ANYTHING!!

Yes,
I have seen that happen before but never delved anymore into it than shutting that stupid auto update off

Yeah I just leave it off and do updates manually. That's my solution too.

If u select prepone. for some reason vista belives it gave you permission to restart.

Same thing happen to me. i presponed for 20 mins for my download to finish. and in restarted wen my download was at 97 % or 7.5GB. Was not happy

Switch to Ubuntu. That doesn't happen.

Please don't go from one billionaire's OS to another billionaire's distro.

Well that wouldn't be a problem because no one actually own's Ubuntu... it's a registered trademark of Canonical, but they don't own the OS. It's a free open operating system. So if he did switch he would be switching to an operating system owned by the everyone involved in developing it... not Mark Shuttleworth.

But anyways .

Who cares how rich the owner is anyway?

Ubuntu is crap, though. Go Gentoo or Debian!


Never had an automatic restard I think O_o

Ubuntu is based on Debian...



Anyways back on topic i guess lol!



Sorry for hijacking this

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