GH> Yeah , some people have that luck but though it happens rarely, it 
 GH> does happen occasionally.  Might just be cause I'm running two 
 GH> boards, Synchronet ( for DoveNet mail ) and of course I've 
 GH> switched all the way back to ProBoard for my regular board.  Yeah, 
 GH> I like being retro I guess. :)  Like I said though, it only 
 GH> happens when I have an automatic performing some duty or other.

 NB> The only way you'll be able to fix that problem is to set Windows 
 NB> to download the updates, but not apply them or reboot your machine 
 NB> until you say so. That way you can safely download/install 
 NB> updates, shut down Irex safely, and reboot. 

that may not always work the way you want it to... m$ can still override
and force the update in along with the reboot... this is exactly what
happened to bob juge's large and very popular system... it corrupted the VM
that his fidonet stuff was running in, the backups were bad, and the drives
the original image(s) were made from were no longer available... it was too
much to loose and too much to try to recover so he ended up leaving fidonet
because of it... it was a huge blow to the network and there was a lot of
folks having to adjust their systems to connect elsewhere for their
traffic...

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