Reasons to hate Windows, volume whatever
Dec. 21st, 2008 07:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
womzillaSo Windows was nagging me to install the latest security upgrade--an upgrade for Internet Explorer 6, which I --almost-- never use. Rather than tell it "forget about this update", I figure that --almost-- is reason enough to get take the update even though I know I'll have to reboot my machine afterwards. (If a Windows Update requires a reboot, a popup window will nag you every 15 minutes until you reboot.)
So, I take the upgrade. I reboot my machine and walk away. Five minutes later, I come back... to discover that I had somewhere along the line scheduled "on the next restart" a disk scan for my secondary internal hard drive, D:. Argh--can't use the computer until that's done. So I do some tasks around the house, figuring it will be done in an hour. I check back in... and it's also running a chkdsk on my 500 GB external hard drive. On which I ran a chkdsk less than a week ago.
The whole escapade kept me away from my computer for over five hours, time when I really wanted to be working on Tales of the Arabian Nights. Argh! Argh! ARGH!
Anyway, it's back now. But geez.
So, I take the upgrade. I reboot my machine and walk away. Five minutes later, I come back... to discover that I had somewhere along the line scheduled "on the next restart" a disk scan for my secondary internal hard drive, D:. Argh--can't use the computer until that's done. So I do some tasks around the house, figuring it will be done in an hour. I check back in... and it's also running a chkdsk on my 500 GB external hard drive. On which I ran a chkdsk less than a week ago.
The whole escapade kept me away from my computer for over five hours, time when I really wanted to be working on Tales of the Arabian Nights. Argh! Argh! ARGH!
Anyway, it's back now. But geez.
