open letter to software makers

dear software makers,

when updating very important information and upgrades in your software, please do not force me to restart my computer. it makes me never want to update your software, or even just uninstall the bugger and be done with it.

please give me the option of restarting now or restarting at my convenience. and yes, my convenience may be in five minutes or it may be tomorrow, but give me that option.

xoxoxo
Valette

07 December 2004 · 16:41:39

4 love notes

Grrr, Norton did this to me today on one of the virus updates at school. I updated all 18 pc’s and at the end each one insisted on restarting. Peeves me to know on.

While we’re on the subject, I’d also like new program installations to give me the option of not being left with a free trial of AOL or ATT on my desktop when the install is complete.

love, Lynne at 07dec04, 17:21:43

Know = no :/ my fingers type quicker than my brain comprehends.

love, Lynne at 07dec04, 17:22:58

I usually just drag the “you must restart now” dialog box down below the task bar and cheerfully ignore it as it sits there all day long. The dirty little secret is that a restart is almost never *really* required to continue using the program, at least if you’re running Win2k/XP.

Newer Windows operating systems run background programs as “services”, which can be stopped/started on the fly without affecting the rest of the OS. The coders are just too lazy to come up with a separate installation routines for Win9x and Win2k/XP, so they try to make everyone restart.

love, david at 07dec04, 23:01:29

Unfortunately, dragging Norton to the task bar doesn’t work. It pops back on the screen every 15 seconds or so.

love, Lynne at 08dec04, 14:43:56

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