Our sys adm. just decided that our workstations are to download updates automatically every day 12 o’clock. Great news for IT security – bad news for my blood pressure.
Sometimes I have a pretty stressed up day, and now Windows keep nagging me with this every 10 minutes:
No! I don’t wanna save everything, shut down Photoshop, Word, Axure and Dreamweaver and reboot my workstation. I’m busy, you see? I’ve got work to do!
If it was only the Windows Update nag screen, but it’s this one too:
And this one:
And iTunes, and the Adobe CS suite, and Windows Mediaplayer, and several other apps which designers think that they’ve made the one and only single most important piece of software on my workstation. Guess what, guys: I’m an adulterer. I have others apps too.
In fact I’ve got at least 8 different apps that craves my attention every now and then. That means at least 1 update every day – and that’s both on my desktop workstation and my laptop (and then again on my desktop at home). My life is one big update.
Sometimes when I’m doing a presentation for a client, Acrobat pops up “demanding my attention” as it so nicely puts it. If I try to show a piece of video Windows Mediaplayer may start the show by asking for a license update, “uhm sorry guys, I just have to …. click click… there”.
It’s as if the software is more important than the work I do. Remember that Microsoft commercial? “We see Susan dreaming of… blah blah blah”. Well, all I see is a bloody MS nag screen wanting me to reboot, even taking focus. Aaargh – there it goes again! Piss off!
Dear Sir !
You have a point there.Life was much more simpel 30 years ago when our primary tool was a flip-over and four colourpencils.
We had nothing to worry about, only the Wietnamwar, the atomic threath, and the high unemployment.
With my best Regards to Sune Silberbauer
Oops – did I sound that regressive?
I don’t know Sune, but I’ll tell him you said hi if I bump into him.
next time your supposed to shut down. Open a command prompt and type: “sc stop wuauserv”. All shut down issues will then be solved.
I´m anoyed by it too. However, it should be possible to do a quick inventory scan when logging on to the network. If your PC then needs updates they are installed during the login process. And since this is while you are crawling the stairs to get your fresh cup of coffee you wont notice the “bump” at all. I’ve seen it done – very nice.
SørenE