Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.karotte.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Frank Slootweg Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Date: 3 Jan 2025 10:37:16 GMT Organization: NOYB Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <8bk8njhp31eu4pri07cppsk95sfkcrtr2h@4ax.com> X-Trace: individual.net DQSuwZMDPvpp65yrfu+PxAUr5A+sLtPAm2SLixTb4gviyMPkON X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:IJjoYT7hdz2AMCYuzoz1s0K1TaQ= sha256:uaBvwbSs743nbVC7rDXtOCJty/uWbBpibUq8SNdYrD4= User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW/2.8.0(0.309/5/3) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2 Bytes: 2242 Paul wrote: > On Thu, 1/2/2025 4:57 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > > On 2 Jan 2025 18:50:18 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote: > > > >> OTOH, I doubt that Joe Average User will realize/see that this option > >> is there and will realize what effect he can achieve with it. > > > > Further confirming the point I was making with the subject of this thread. > > Thirty five days is sufficient to pause activity > until you have a clear maintenance window. One of the > purposes of this, is a sales person can do a PowerPoint > presentation to a client, without Windows Update interfering > with the session. As I mentioned, the total pause period is not just upto 5 weeks, but any series of periods, each upto 5 weeks. And Windows Update will only interfere with the session if the machine is not powerful enough for the download and partial installation happening in the background. The system will not restart and finish the installation, unless the sales person is so clueless as not to check/set the (non) active hours.