Why is it?

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:16:20 GMT

Why is it that every time I seem to be into working on something when my machine decides to want to restart due to some system maintenance installation that occurred in the background. Is there not some way for these automated maintenance scripts to detect keystrokes to determine if someone is actually using the machine?

In tonight's case, I was working on a PowerPoint presentation needed first thing Monday morning when I was prompted to save all work as a shutdown was commencing. Does anyone understand how utterly frustrating this can be? I would think this would have been something experienced by anyone who works in a networked environment. In an Enterprise environment such as mine, this type of thing is both necessary and critical to maintaining a healthy environment.

Believe me, I understand the need to keep the Windows environment as up to date and protected as necessary, but in terms of impact to productivity, I would think that at some point, and I know I may be pushing the envelope of the individual user's needs here, it would be nice to not to have work interrupted by some reboot script.

I wonder if this would be the first in a long line of "nice to haves" in terms of an software Service friendly environment. Who knows. I do know that I am more than likely not the only individual out there who has not either lost work due to an unexpected reboot or been interrupted by one that was kind enough to give you time to save your work.

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Why is it?