This is incredibly annoying. Without warning, my computer (Vista home
premium) will shut down to perform updates. It restarts, and things like
word documents may be preserved thanks to autosave, but any other work is
lost.
Is there some way I can either turn this off, or at least get it to display
a warning telling me it's about to do it (in however many seconds, say)?
It's somewhat disconcerting and unfriendly (to say the least) to find one's
work and windows suddenly disppearing from the screen...

I've searched online, but can't seem to find references to this specific
issue.

TIA

"Jon Riley" <jon@jonriley.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:OSc3cHIWKHA.4360@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> This is incredibly annoying. Without warning, my computer (Vista home
> premium) will shut down to perform updates. It restarts, and things like
> word documents may be preserved thanks to autosave, but any other work is
> lost.
> Is there some way I can either turn this off, or at least get it to
> display a warning telling me it's about to do it (in however many seconds,
> say)?
> It's somewhat disconcerting and unfriendly (to say the least) to find
> one's work and windows suddenly disppearing from the screen...
>
> I've searched online, but can't seem to find references to this specific
> issue.
>
> TIA[/color]


See:
Using Windows Update in Vista
[url]http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/windowsupdate/learn/windowsvista.mspx[/url]

Then choose the best method for you, in other words, don't install updates
until you're prepared to reboot. Simple.

Perhaps "Notify only" would be more appropriate.