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From: "Geo" 

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> So how did Microsoft reboot the machine without user intervention? If you
> have 'protect my pc' enabled, it will download and install the patches,
you
> have to agree/choose to reboot the system after the patches are installed.

Lets say you don't want auto updates, you just want to go to windows update
when you feel like it and select what updates you want to apply. Pretty simple
idea.

So one of the things you don't need is the autoupdate service running
constantly sucking up system resources, checking with microsoft for new drm and
loading it behind your back, causing other things to swap out of memory,
providing more running code for hackers to exploit, etc. so you set the service
to disabled and reboot the system.

Now if you go to windows update it tells you it won't let you patch unless you
set the service to automatic startup. Doesn't need to be started, just needs to
be set to automatic startup.

So if you do that then update now you have to remember to disable the damn
thing again. And with the amount of time it takes to do the updates, it's
really easy to forget. Which I suppose is pretty much the point in making you
set it to automatic instead of manual and started..

Geo.

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