>If I ask the OS to shutdown, the darn OS should shutdown, if an application is not responding, then kill the damn application, hanging up does not solve anything at all! Who the f*** is in control, the applications or the OS? This is one of my pet-peeves with Windows, so many times I shut it down but not wait only to find the next day Windows still waiting for me to answer the "App XXX is not responding, do you want kill it"? very badly parraphrased question. OF COURSE I want to kill it, otherwise I wouldn't be shutting down the OS, would I?

Specially when the reason I'm rebooting is specifically to kill that application, because the regular bouncer (task manager) can't get the drunk out of the bar without closing it completely. And now it will kill it, but still waits for my permission.

>Couple this with the updates, where I set it up (at home, at work is all set up by policies) to download and ask me to install, then after installing I get a dialog "Updates installed, Reboot or Reboot Later?" and if I say later I got the freaking pop up question every freaking 5 minutes.... arghhh!! But even worst is when it completely ignores my
>setting and from time to time it just installs and REBOOTS my computer after some "Very important" update, WHO THE F*** is the OS to decide for me when to reboot??

I've turned the updates off. It cares more about M$ having more and more power over my machine. 99% of those are just security or DRM patches for IE and Outlook, which I'm not using anyway.

>(By the way, the last 3 times this happened it convenientely set up IE as my default internet browser, ignoring that Firefox is mine)

The last (trial version, IIRC) app which tried to do that to me was uninstalled promptly without even looking what it was supposed to do. That's equally rude as the websites who maximize your browser or open popups onLoad().

>Sorry for the rant.

You're not alone.