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to: Mike N.
from: RobertB
date: 2007-05-12 13:45:00
subject: Re: Vista Reboot Madness!

From: RobertB 

In article ,
 Mike N.  wrote:

> http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisedesktop/archives/2007/05/vista_reboot_m
a
> .html
>
> "It's madness, I tell ya! Shear madness!
>
> Recently, I installed one of the myriad nVidia display drivers for Windows
> Vista (rev. 158.24 to be exact) and within 24 hours the operating systems
> was forcibly "downgrading" my XPS M1710 notebook to an
older, WDM-certified
> version. Worse still, it did this without my consent, courtesy of the new,
> more aggressive Windows Update.
>
> The final straw came today when, in an apparent fit of over-protectiveness,
> Vista decided to perform the downgrade - 4th time in as many days - while I
> was in the middle of constructing a complex web query. Suddenly, all of my
> applications started shutting down. I then saw the familiar "Installing
> Updates" message as Vista completed the "downgrade" and
rebooted the
> machine.
>
> Bottom Line: It's the middle of the workday and my PC is rebooting on its
> own, without so much as a warning dialog, all because Vista can't recognize
> the installed video driver. This is nuts!
> ...
> "

That's what you get for messing around with your operating system.

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