From: "Geo." 

so why doesn't he turn off autoupdates? Also I guess this is proof there
are drivers on the windows update site (where you guys were saying only
Rich ever finds drivers)...

Geo.

"Mike N."  wrote in message
news:l8ab43hnum5s3fv3dcmpevqg03tjd8u04j{at}4ax.com...
> 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!
> ...
> "

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