Re: United to flight attendants: Put away your phone or you are fired

On Sat, 10 Feb 2024 20:31:00 -0500, micky <[email protected]> wrote:

>In comp.mobile.android, on Sat, 10 Feb 2024 09:26:05 -0500, Alan Browne
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>On 2024-02-09 19:02, Governor Swill wrote:
>>> On Fri, 9 Feb 2024 11:26:42 -0800, Alan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> By all means... ...educate me:
>>>>
>>>> How does your computer run updates to Windows...
>>>>
>>>> ...while it is shutdown?
>>> 
>>> It downloads and prepares updates at any time it is running.  Most updates require a
>>> shutdown or restart.  If you don't shutdown or restart, Windows won't update.
>>
>>I've never seen it happen, but I recall people complaining that just as 
>>they've setup their presentation, and people wander into the room just 
>>on time for the 10:00, greet people, a few remarks, and then turn down 
>>the lights a notch, ...
>>
>>... everyone gets to see the Windows machine go into a reset/re-start OS 
>>update that can't be stopped.
>>
>>Is that still an issue?
>
>last I heard the status is this:  MS let you chooose a 12-hour period
>each day when there won't be any updates.  
>
>that doesn't work well for me because I sleep and work odd hours. 
>
>But another guy wrote a short program t hat constantly changes the 12
>hour period so I am always in the 3rd hour of it, with 9 hours to go. So
>now it never restarts except when I let it. 
>
>Sometimes the computer slows down and I need to restart it.  Usually I
>check for windows updates before I do.  I download them and let them
>update during restart if that is what they need. 
>
>I go about a week between restarts, but I'm willing to go much longer
>when it doesn't give me trouble, like slowness.  (The other day, for the
>first time ever, alt-tab didn't work!  Restarting fixed that.) 

When Windows tells me an update is ready and needs a restart.  I drop what I'm doing and
let it update immediately.  Five minute coffee break and I don't have to worry about
security patches being up to date.

Swill
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