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Offline Aardwolf

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Windows keeps trying to destroy itself
on: February 14, 2008, 02:26:22 am
I hate automatic updates that force me to restart.

I click the restart later button, and what does it do? Ten minutes later or so, the same dialog comes up.

Did you ever realize that maybe I don't want to update, that you are not as important as whatever I happen to be doing right now?

Furthermore, sometimes when a Windows session ends, my computer decides to destroy the bootloader, forcing me to reinstall from my Kubuntu installation CD.

I HATE IT SO MUCH!
 

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Re: Windows keeps trying to destroy itself
Reply #1 on: February 14, 2008, 02:52:25 am
Turn off the updates and download them manually. 
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Offline Fearless Leader

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Re: Windows keeps trying to destroy itself
Reply #2 on: February 16, 2008, 11:33:21 am
Just cover it in bacon, that should teach it
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Offline colecampbell666

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Re: Windows keeps trying to destroy itself
Reply #3 on: February 16, 2008, 05:29:49 pm
Quote from: Aardwolf on February 14, 2008, 02:26:22 am
Furthermore, sometimes when a Windows session ends, my computer decides to destroy the bootloader, forcing me to reinstall from my Kubuntu installation CD.
This points to some weird Windoze thing, or HDD problems.
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Offline Tyrian

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Re: Windows keeps trying to destroy itself
Reply #4 on: February 16, 2008, 07:14:42 pm
I had a friend of mine at university whose laptop has XP on it and its bootloader (NTLDR) kept committing suicide, temporarily.  She shut it off for a few hours, powered it back on, and it worked just fine.  I have no idea what's causing it.
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Re: Windows keeps trying to destroy itself
Reply #5 on: February 16, 2008, 07:39:03 pm
Quote from: Tyrian on February 16, 2008, 07:14:42 pm
I had a friend of mine at university whose laptop has XP on it and its bootloader (NTLDR) kept committing suicide, temporarily.  She shut it off for a few hours, powered it back on, and it worked just fine.  I have no idea what's causing it.
That could be from a virus, worms, problem with main XP files or .exes, or something else I don't know about.
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Offline colecampbell666

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Re: Windows keeps trying to destroy itself
Reply #6 on: February 16, 2008, 08:18:56 pm
Quote from: Hades on February 16, 2008, 07:39:03 pm
Quote from: Tyrian on February 16, 2008, 07:14:42 pm
I had a friend of mine at university whose laptop has XP on it and its bootloader (NTLDR) kept committing suicide, temporarily.  She shut it off for a few hours, powered it back on, and it worked just fine.  I have no idea what's causing it.
That could be from a virus, worms, problem with main XP files or .exes, or something else I don't know about.
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Offline Kazan

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Re: Windows keeps trying to destroy itself
Reply #7 on: February 16, 2008, 09:30:14 pm
could be thermal problems (in main CPU, main RAM, or the drive cache), or read heads that like to take a nap after operating for a while, bad power management on the drive, etc
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Re: Windows keeps trying to destroy itself
Reply #8 on: February 17, 2008, 07:09:20 am
or it could be that microsoft are total dicks and do things so that people dont want to have a linux dualboot. i get maybe 2 viruses a year (and with bi-annual re-installs, the problem seldom builds up to severe chaos), and never has one done any damage. usually my scanner catches it before it catches me.
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Offline Tyrian

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Re: Windows keeps trying to destroy itself
Reply #9 on: February 17, 2008, 09:25:09 am
Quote from: Hades on February 16, 2008, 07:39:03 pm
Quote from: Tyrian on February 16, 2008, 07:14:42 pm
I had a friend of mine at university whose laptop has XP on it and its bootloader (NTLDR) kept committing suicide, temporarily.  She shut it off for a few hours, powered it back on, and it worked just fine.  I have no idea what's causing it.
That could be from a virus, worms, problem with main XP files or .exes, or something else I don't know about.

She scanned with her AV program, and the system read as clean.  Granted, she did use McAfee...

Quote from: Kazan on February 16, 2008, 09:30:14 pm
could be thermal problems (in main CPU, main RAM, or the drive cache), or read heads that like to take a nap after operating for a while, bad power management on the drive, etc

We know for sure it's not a thermal problem.  In both instances, the system had been powered off for several hours and was cold on boot.  (Personally, I think it's a hardware defect in the HD controller board.)
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This year, both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union Address occurred during the same week.  This is an ironic juxtaposition of events--one involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to a creature of little intelligence for prognostication, while the other involves a groundhog.

Bumper stickers at my college:
"Republicans for Voldemort!"
"Frodo failed.  Bush got the Ring."

Resistance is futile!  (If < 1 ohm...)

"Any nation which sacrifices a little liberty for a little security deserves neither and loses both." -- Benjamin Franklin

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