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Block Windows Shut Down

by Bob on 28 January 2010, under Hacks, How To, Why Sys Admins Hate Me, Win32 & MFC, Windows

It’s hard to describe just how much I HATE rebooting my computer. If I have to use a Windows computer for any extended period of time, then I always change update policies to disallow automatic reboots. In fact, I usually click the irritating “Remind me in ten minutes” button every ten minutes for three weeks before I finally allow Windows to restart (or until I stop the Automatic Updates service).

So you can imagine how annoyed I was to come into work twice this week to the blue Windows logon screen. Every time this happens it takes me twenty minutes to figure out what I was doing the day before, what I have to do today, and where I stopped with my work. And really what made this so much more painful was that it happened without any advanced warning.

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