From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"RobertB"  wrote in message
news:missinglink-4C4D6E.13450012052007{at}news.barkto.com...
> In article ,
> Mike N.  wrote:
>
>> http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisedesktop/archives/2007/05/vista_reboot_
ma
>> .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.

The problem appears that Vista has included device drivers in the automated
update scenario. Those drivers have normally been in the Hardware
(optional) part of Windows update. Some ( myself included ) have been badly
burned by the hardware optional upgrade and won't do that unless all else
fails

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