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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / April 2008Unwanted restart for updates
I had a bad experience today--I was doing a PowerPoint presentation, and I looked down at my laptop--only to a Windows dialog box announcing that it was going to restart so it could install updates! It was counting down to a restart in a couple minutes; there were two buttons, one for "Restart now", and one for "Restart later"--but the latter was grayed out! Needless to say, my presentation was broken up while we waited for Windows to re-boot, log me back in, start PowerPoint back up, open the file I was showing, and scroll down to where I had left off. I managed to ad lib while all this was going on, and I had enough time for the talk (it would have demolished a standard 20 minute talk). This is unacceptable. The only warning I had was that the machine was excruciatingly slow for several minutes before this. I don't suppose there's any solution to this? short of jumping ship to Linux, at least for giving talks. Mike Maxwell CASL/ U MD The reason the wait option was grayed out is that you must tell it how long to wait. I hate to say this but the solution to this ANNOYING interruption is to turn off "Automatic Updates" and do them manually when it fits in your schedule. Austin Myers MS PowerPoint MVP Team Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress www.playsforcertain.com >I had a bad experience today--I was doing a PowerPoint presentation, > and I looked down at my laptop--only to a Windows dialog box [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > Mike Maxwell > CASL/ U MD I am amazed at Microsoft's arrogance, though -- why in the world would they allow something like that to show up when PPT is in slide show view? I mean, being in that view suppresses Outlook mail notifications and stuff, so why not updates, too? Screen savers kicking in because of IT locking down systems is another that just galls me. Those should be overridden.  SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://tinyurl.com/36grcd PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/32a7nx > The reason the wait option was grayed out is that you must tell it how > long to wait. I hate to say this but the solution to this ANNOYING [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >> Mike Maxwell >> CASL/ U MD In Vista at least, if you have auto updates running it will interrupt anything your doing. Very ANNOYING. Austin Myers MS PowerPoint MVP Team Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress www.playsforcertain.com >I am amazed at Microsoft's arrogance, though -- why in the world would they >allow something like that to show up when PPT is in slide show view? I [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] >>> Mike Maxwell >>> CASL/ U MD Annoying is quite the understatement. SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://tinyurl.com/36grcd PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/32a7nx > In Vista at least, if you have auto updates running it will interrupt > anything your doing. Very ANNOYING. [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] >>>> Mike Maxwell >>>> CASL/ U MD > The reason the wait option was grayed out is that you must tell it how long > to wait. I can't remember exactly what the dlg box looked like (I was rather upset at the time!), but I do seem to recall there was a countdown number. So you're saying that if I had typed in some large number (60 minutes or something), that it would have allowed me to finish my presentation before it rebooted? Sigh... I guess that wasn't intuitively obvious, at least not in my state (standing in front of an audience isn't always conducive to clear thinking). Maybe in some future version of Windows, there could be a button that says, in large letters "WAIT!!! Not now!" (or some such :-)) > I hate to say this but the solution to this ANNOYING interruption > is to turn off "Automatic Updates" and do them manually when it fits in your > schedule. On this laptop, I happen to have an administrator account, so I guess I could have done that. But our company often gives us laptops for conferences for which we don't have admin accounts. Guess I'll have to tell them. Thanks for the answers-- Mike Maxwell CASL/ U MD Sorry the answers were less than hoped for. Austin Myers MS PowerPoint MVP Team Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress www.playsforcertain.com >> The reason the wait option was grayed out is that you must tell it how >> long [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > Mike Maxwell > CASL/ U MD > Sorry the answers were less than hoped for. Well, I can't blame you for the problem! Thank you for the answers. All I can say is, I hope Microsoft reads this. It is a show-stopper, both literally and figuratively. Mike Maxwell CASL/ U MD |
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