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Everything you install wants to update itself these days and it usually happens when you try to get something done.
A couple of days ago I opened a pdf and Adobe Update announced it needed an update, ok. Progress bar, install and reboot later I was a couple of minutes and one train of thought out
of pocket.
If you're familiar with the registry and I guess most Windows users are, you'll see practically every application has registered an update task that perpetually runs in the background or even runs as a full blown service.
This idea proposes a "RunOnUpdate" registry fork where all eager applications can register their desire to bug the hell out of you if they could.
All apps on this fork could be run when scheduled (when you have your windows updates scheduled for), or on demand. An 'on shutdown' setting would be nice.
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[+]. Adobe Acrobat Reader seems to be one of the worst offenders on this particular PC, don't know about other applications. I wouldn't want it to do it on shutdown though, since though this never happens, i'd like a way of shutting a computer down almost instantly, and also, some computers don't get shut down for weeks. An option to do this, as you suggested, would be good.
Not to derail this off-topic, but both PDFs and Acrobat Reader seem to be the work of the Devil to me. A lot of the time, the same info in ASCII form would've been fine and i don't see the point. |
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Do you only wear hessian, then? |
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I presume he doesn't, but also doesn't want updates as microsoft intended. |
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