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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