Compaints about Microsoft OS...join the fray !

I've used both Windows and Apple OS over the years and am currently using Win 7 on a laptop.

Today I started a long post (see link below) and Microsoft starting shutting down the computer. Apparently in the time just before I came online this morning it had done some downloads and now (without warning) it was closing everything down (including the post I was typing) and was getting ready to re-boot.

It did all that and of course the longish post was lost and did not recover. Basically Microsoft is taking control of our computers at that point and giving us no choice and losing our work.  Used to be they would tell you if updates were available and would let you choose if or when to upgrade. No more (that I know of...maybe there is somewhere in 7 to turn that off...if you know, let us know.)

It did all that and of course the longish post was lost and did not recover.

Install IE7Pro like I did. It will save all of the text you type in boxes so that you can recover it if necessary. I too have had posts disappear but thanks to IE7Pro I clicked on the restore text button and back it all came.

ie7pro(dot)com/

Hope that helps.

I figured it was in there somewhere but just didn't take the time to look for it. Thanks for the directions to get there.

Meanwhile, Microsoft decides what is best for us and maybe they're right most of the time, but choice is the best thing.

Ah, it's just a default setting that comes shipped in the O/S.

Imagine the alternative of getting no updates at all. LOL! I think then people would complain security problems

Of course, and maybe it IS to our advantage to have it automatically update, but my Norton 360 easily allows me to decide WHEN a backup is going to occurr. Therefore, it doesn't happen at 7 a.m. when I am on the computer but at 1 a.m. when I am not.

Adobe is another one that wants to update all the time, but at least it pops up with a suggestion that I do that...I'm just suggesting that MS should make THAT their default...give me the choice up front instead of buried somewhere.

MS (or Apple) is like eBay...what other choice do we have?  Well, there is LINUX, etc.