At Work in Cape Town

Annoying Programs: Windows Update

To reduce the annoyance of Windows Update, some people set it to do everything automatically.  I take the opposite approach: I set it to alert me, but then let me decide when to download and when to update. That way the bandwidth hit of downloading and the insistence on rebooting aren’t interrupting me at bad times.  For me it’s less annoying to choose when it downloads and when it installs.  Also, I don’t like to be among the first to use a new update, especially a big one like a service pack. I always wait a few days under the theory that if it is buggy I will have time to hear the digitial screaming of other users before I jump in.