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  • #21
  • Edited 12:58pm Nov 22, 2006 12:44pm | Edited 12:58pm
The reason I had the problem, and the reason that I posted the policy editor solution that allows you to disable restarts specifically, is that I do not have this set to: "Turn off Automatic Updates".

Instead I have "Download updates for me, but let me choose when to install them".

This will result (at least on my computer) in restarts in the middle of the night, if I ignore the the yellow update icon for long enough.

So if anyone wants to have windows download but not install the updates AND not reboot the computer automatically, then please see the first post of this thread for the link on how to do this.

Quoting piccolo
open Control Panel ("Start" -> and then there should be the control panel somewhere). Then choose "Automatic Updates" and configure it how you want it, everything else is self explanatory. Hope it helps.

My PC goes for months without reboots.. it is not just microsoft.. you have to have a good hardware and proper drivers installed, too.
  • #22
  • Nov 22, 2006 12:56pm Nov 22, 2006 12:56pm
No, not recently. Last year and the year before and the year before. Maybe only 4 or 5 times total. I tried both desktop managers. But they are not user-friendly out of the box. Mouse cursors pointing in weird directions, 2nd rate fonts.

If anyone disputes this, just look at this snapshot:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Firefox2.png

Those are some weird and unprofessional fonts in the menu and toolbars. As you say, surely it can be customized. But you'd think someone would design it to have an attractive interface out-of-the-box?

But Linux is a server OS first and foremost, not a Desktop OS. So Linux is amazing... just not for GUIs IMO. It's just the GUIs look and feel like they are out of the 80s or something.

Quoting Isotonic
sorry i couldn't let this go without comment. Have you installed linux lately? You have a choice of two desktop managers (Gnome or KDE) that are just as good as windows, if not better. More customisable as well.

Yes the logical file system is better than the crummy physical drive letters you get with winblows...:
  • #23
  • Nov 22, 2006 4:38pm Nov 22, 2006 4:38pm
Quoting ycomp
If anyone disputes this, just look at this snapshot:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Firefox2.png

Those are some weird and unprofessional fonts in the menu and toolbars. As you say, surely it can be customized. But you'd think someone would design it to have an attractive interface out-of-the-box?

But Linux is a server OS first and foremost, not a Desktop OS. So Linux is amazing... just not for GUIs IMO. It's just the GUIs look and feel like they are out of the 80s or something.
I just looked at that page and those fonts are ok to me! Sure theyr'e different, but it's just personal taste.

I'm not using linux right now, but when you see someone running Linux on an old 800Mhz PC with 128MB (This was last night) and it flies through applications, movies etc instantly with no waits or pauses or any of those little short term application freezes you see on even XP it makes me want to stick a size 12 somewhere where Microsoft couldn't sit down for a month.
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  • #24
  • Last Post: Nov 22, 2006 8:32pm Nov 22, 2006 8:32pm
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And they all have crummy GUIs
referring to linux. You obviously haven't tried linux lately. I could go on and on here but I will leave it at that.

I have tried to get MT4 working under wine (under ubuntu edgy and dapper) and have had no luck, any advice of your set-up that you used to get it working please?
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