I agree with you Craig. I always turn off automagic updates on a new computer or any computer that I will be using for an extended period of time. Until M$ can truly read my mind and know for certain when it is a good time for me I will do it manually.
I have some apps that run day and night on customers computers and from time to time I get a call that they lost data between such and such a time and I can usually trace it back to M$ automagic update.

>I turn off automatic updates. More often than not, they occur at a really, really bad time. I run them manually, when the timing suits me.
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>>Hi everybody,
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>>Just need to vent my frustration. I was working on a complex program, had ~ 10 different applications opened, then computer just re-started.
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>>I'm wondering if this is really an update or some virus.
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>>The more importantly, I'm guessing that my changes were not saved and I made a lot of them.... :(
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>>Thanks.