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Have you heard about Blue Screen syndrome? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I saw that happen once in a big presentation.

There was a team of students presenting their work to ~200 people. Right in the middle, a pop-up says updates are finished and the computer needs to restart. It has a helpful 60-second countdown, but “cancel” is grayed out, so all they can do is watch.

I was only in the audience and I still have nightmares.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

shutdown.exe -a should take care of situations like that. It's not an excuse for taking away your options on the UI though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Does that require admin access? It wasn't their machine, it was one the school provided for the auditorium.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

By default a normal user can abort the shutdown. They could also configure group policy to prevent shutdown permissions which also prevents aborting a shutdown.

The GPO is Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local Policies > User Rights Assignment > Shut down the system.

[–] Honytawk 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

What about all those update skippers that start complaining to Microsoft when their system breaks because they don't understand that updates are crucial for a good running system?

I get why Microsoft forces it now on the Home editions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Greyed out options like that almost always mean the person has been hitting cancel or delay for several warnings already.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This wasn't their machine, it was one the school provided for the auditorium.

[–] Honytawk 1 points 2 days ago

And someone still had to configure that

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

I don't want to be that guy, because I still hate Windows, but... most people who have these problems just didn't set up updates properly. Well, that, or they never restart their computer.