Windows Update automatically changing user settings Vista News Discuss Windows Update automatically changing user settings in the Windows Vista forums; Windows Update automatically changing user settings (again) Today, October 12, 2007, 3 hours ago | Mary Jo Foley After Patch Tuesday this week (October 9), some Windows Vista users noticed something ...

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Windows Update automatically changing user settings (again)
Today, October 12, 2007, 3 hours ago | Mary Jo Foley
After Patch Tuesday this week (October 9), some Windows Vista users noticed something strange: Windows Update had changed their Automatic Update settings and rebooted their machines automatically without their consent.

Originally Posted by Snuffy

This is old hat stuff for anybody that has ever ran Windows products... SOS and they still have to trash it around... so honestly there is no Windows news worth reporting. I wonder if they (anybody) READs the details of the upgrade prior to downloading and installing. From this I recon very few do...or maybe they do not understand.."monkey see monkey do"

The new report comes on the heels of recent complaints regarding Windows Update performing stealth updates on users’ machines who had turned off Automatic Updates. (Microsoft officials subsequently explained that glitch by saying that Windows Update requires self-updating before it is able to recognize that new updates are available. Microsoft promised to be clearer, in the future, in communicating this requirement.)
<|> It’s hard to say how many users have been affected by this week’s Windows Update problem. The patch-setting override seems to not have affected users running the beta of Vista Service Pack (SP) 1, though that is not 100 percent verified,(hard to verify all the Pirate copies) AeroXP members said. It’s also not clear whether any Windows XP users were affected and/or whether Vista users who obtain their patches via Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) (Beta Testers)were hit with the same problem.<|> (Must be Pirates who did not read) Windows users are trickling in from across the globe reporting that their machines downloaded and installed updates they did not consent to. Rubbing salt in the wound, machines were also automatically and forcefully rebooted at the default 3am time frame.” I am a WSUS beta tester also... but I read my details, and do understand.. may time REBOOT is necessary. Seems you have 10 mins to click yes or no then it just does it..

Remember I add comments and they are in BOLD."many times the new updates require a reboot and that sometimes kills the Pirate Versions, snicker&snacker, Ya Ha Matey - Blow da man down.

source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=830