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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. --- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5* Origin: Barktopia BBS Site http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45) SEEN-BY: 633/267 @PATH: 379/45 1 633/267 |
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