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Good morning, fellow peevers! Today I opened my Word program to write the Question of the Day and this peeve, only to be greeted by a pop-up screen which announced that new updates were available, and would I like to download them now? Everything screeched to a halt while I closed every open application on my computer, then waited several minutes for the update to do its thing. Does this annoy you as much as it does me? Why couldn't they have gotten all the bugs out of the program before they released it? It's today's peeve: Repeated (and seemingly unnecessary) software updates that interrupt you at the most inconvenient times.
Good morning, fellow peevers! Today I opened my Word program to write the Question of the Day and this peeve, only to be greeted by a pop-up screen which announced that new updates were available, and would I like to download them now? Everything screeched to a halt while I closed every open application on my computer, then waited several minutes for the update to do its thing. Does this annoy you as much as it does me? Why couldn't they have gotten all the bugs out of the program before they released it? It's today's peeve: Repeated (and seemingly unnecessary) software updates that interrupt you at the most inconvenient times.
I have the same peeve. My computer does this all the time. It will even update itself after me saying NO for 30 days.
And sometimes the updates screw everything else up. With iCloud, it updates all the other gadgets too. Good peeve. But I am too skeert to turn it off!!
I usually click on the 'remind me later' box and take care of it later. If updates come up as soon as I open the puter in the AM then I click on it to do it's thing, then shut it down and reboot as they say.
I use to be annoyed by the "you got mail" pop-up, but that's been eliminated now.
Mine does updates though it'll give me the option to install them when I shut down the computer which isn't a problem. I think my problem with Windows 8 is it tries to be too intuitive. This causes it to do stuff I don't want or never intended for it to do like suddenly highlight stuff to copy it. Other times, I apparently will unknowingly hit one of the hot keys and, it'll kick me out of a program.
I usually click on the 'remind me later' box and take care of it later. If updates come up as soon as I open the puter in the AM then I click on it to do it's thing, then shut it down and reboot as they say.
I use to be annoyed by the "you got mail" pop-up, but that's been eliminated now.
I do this too and always to automatic updates in the middle of the night
Good morning, fellow peevers! Today I opened my Word program to write the Question of the Day and this peeve, only to be greeted by a pop-up screen which announced that new updates were available, and would I like to download them now? Everything screeched to a halt while I closed every open application on my computer, then waited several minutes for the update to do its thing. Does this annoy you as much as it does me? Why couldn't they have gotten all the bugs out of the program before they released it? It's today's peeve: Repeated (and seemingly unnecessary) software updates that interrupt you at the most inconvenient times.
Yeah, my Mac keeps having this "software update/App Store" announcement every 10 days-2 weeks,
and I have to click on it (open it) in order to make it go away (by closing it again ASAP).
Same happens with Flash or browser updates, I dismiss them until a later date.
I only bother with the updates when not in middle of doing something important.
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