Hi,
I think you had some sort of registery corruption problem or the critical update had a problem with some other software installed on your workstation.

I have automatic updates running on several hundred workstations, and the only problem I have experienced was when one of the clients in their wisdom decided to implement roaming profiles & it screwed one of the Workstations.

I just reimaged the drive & disbled the roaming profiles, no problems since, 12 Months.


>>Hi,
>><snip> it REBOOTED my computer because it felt good to do it
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>>Just go to the Control Panel/Automatic Updates & set the updates to how you want to do it, the default does everything automatically.
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>Sorry, but I do not see any option for the behaviour I described, I have it as I wanted, download but let me chose when to install. I do not see options for stop my computer for rebooting if I did not ask for it (by the way, I forgot to mention that one month ago, when one of this unwanted installations of a "critical update" that rebooted my computer, had some bug or something, that kept my computer rebooting all night, and ultimately the only solution was to buy a new hard drive to avoid losing data, for windows rebooted even before I could hit the key to boot in safe mode), nor I see the option to tell Windows to shut up after the first time I told it to restart later, and it annoys me every 5 minutes with its message. It really pisses me off, although I am sure there must be something to turn off, it should be easy to find.
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>Thanks anyways
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>(I know I can turn automatic updates alltogether, and then live with the warnings my computer is not safe! :))