From: "Rich Gauszka" 

and for some users they've caused their OE address books to vanish. I
wonder if they started a new push for Outlook?

http://www.informationweek.com/windows/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=186700934&su
bSection=Product+News

Other patches unveiled earlier this month have also been questioned by
users. Numerous users of Outlook Express, Microsoft's entry-level e-mail
client, have complained that the MS06-016 bulletin caused address books to
vanish and mail to be interrupted. Microsoft has said it is looking into
the matter, but has not published an advisory or issued any other
statement.


"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
news:u1s452pba8mg338rtu7phdc9gsvjp22r6q{at}4ax.com...
>
> While I cannot disagree completely with your suggestion, what if the
> user didn't want the process to stop?
>
> The root problem here is that Microsoft took control of PCs, and killed
> running processes.
>
> /m
>
> On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 22:09:37 +0300, "Antti Kurenniemi"
>  wrote:
>
>>And any program such as this ray tracing one, which run for long time,
>>should check for system shutdown messages that are dispatched to all
>>processes when winoze is shutting down, and save the work to a disk...
>>
>>
>>Antti Kurenniemi
>>"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:4450d950$1{at}w3....
>>>I agree with all of that, but if this guy is going to re-run this huge
>>>calculation, then he should be prudent and unplug the network connection,
>>>make sure he as a great UPS that will keep the thing going from the time
>>>he
>>>leaves work till the time he gets back the next day, maybe use a macro
>>>program like "macro express" to periodically save the
work as it goes
>>>along.
>>>
>>> Prudence is good, because Murphy's law will always kick in on something
>>> like this.
>>>
>>> Gary
>>>
>>> "Geo"  wrote in message
news:44509a21$1{at}w3....
>>>>A power failure is an accident, a reboot after an auto
update is not an
>>>> accident. A reboot after an unannounced off schedule auto
update that
>>>> brings
>>>> more copy protection to your machine is not an accident and not even
>>>> required and certainly could have waited for the normal
update cycle.
>>>>
>>>> Geo.
>>>>
>>>> "Gary Britt"  wrote in
message news:44503a96{at}w3....
>>>>> Well the lesson from that one is unplug the network
connection on a
>>>> computer
>>>>> that needs to calculate a single project for 2 weeks
without saving
>>>>> its
>>>> work
>>>>> at intermediary points.  Was this computer on a solid
UPS?  Of course
>>>>> I'm
>>>>> not saying its alright for MS to reboot somebody's
computer without
>>>>> their
>>>>> explicit permission, just saying count on stuff like
that going wrong
>>>> during
>>>>> any kind of long unsaved process.
>>>>>
>>>>> Gary
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>

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