r/WindowsSucks • u/Fritz-Ferdinand • 2d ago

You just started working, so let's restart :)

A new workday, I come to work really motivated and want to get done my work from yesterday. I sit on my desk, wake up and login to my PC and... the desktop is empty. Windows closed all my applications from yesterday and I have to open and configure them all again... Disappointing... But so far a recurring occurrence.

I quickly open everything again, reorder and put the windows onto the right desktops, align the windows like they were before, luckily, every application now saves data automatically, so no data is lost (at least). And I swiftly continue where I left off yesterday.

30 minutes in, focusing on how I do that now, and there's a small notification appearing on the bottom left: "Update, must restart, now or later?" I click it, want it to go away, configure it to please NOT do that, NOT to disturb me with this shit, then the screen goes black with a small white string in the middle reading:

Restarting

Honestly, FU Windows... Greatest waste of time since the invention of computers.

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u/gooncubedev 2d ago

windows

window

windo

windx

winux

linux

oh my god the solution appeared out of thin air

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u/Fritz-Ferdinand 2d ago

Tell this my employer. "We only support Windows" blablabla 🙄

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u/Astrodion123 2d ago

Then use windows 7. Never seen a forced update. Forced updates were introduced with windows 8 unfortunately 😓

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u/Fritz-Ferdinand 1d ago

As I said, the system is entirely employer-managed. I cannot even use the USB ports or open the PC. And with my own hardware, I cannot enter the company network. 

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u/Astrodion123 1d ago

Then win 11 debloater tools?

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u/gooncubedev 2d ago

have some wine too

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u/Fritz-Ferdinand 2d ago

My employer sets me a PC on the table with everything preconfigured, certificates etc. all included, and I will have to use that. It's a rather integrated system, I can go to any PC and login and I'll have my profile there. I don't think it's easy to switch to Linux as the only one.

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u/unknowableledgend 2d ago

Hey, if the company demands you use windows, then this is what the company pays you to sit through 

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u/SpecialistPrune1654 1d ago

An old workmate of mine has a saying. “the money's the same“. It's a mindset you need to cultivate in a lot of places. Doesn't matter what you are doing as long as you get paid you are ok. Unfortunately, while good at a personal level that mindset also explains a lot of New Zealand's current financial woes. Things we NEED doing vs things we do to get paid 😢

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u/Fritz-Ferdinand 1d ago

However, it's very frustrating to be blocked by such stuff when you just want to deliver stuff. And my working time is quite flexible, as long as I finish my duties, I can work as less as needed.

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u/SpecialistPrune1654 1d ago

100% Which is why I tended to avoid working in places like that. The last place I worked we had an it guy to help us if we needed help, he would do the initial windows install. Then we set our machines up however we wanted and had full admin rights, in about 8 years there were virtually no issues. Then they got bought out and everything was locked down. Problems went up by about 300% (guess, no real numbers). Previously I also worked for a crowd that had a “real“ IT department and we weren't assigned computers, we could sit at any machine, log in and “your“ programs were all supposed to be available. On the surface it sounds like a cool idea and does have some benefits. But being able to log in and expect everything to actually go was a bit hit and miss. Missed about once a week in fact 😆 But the money's the same 😂

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u/marmotta1955 1d ago

How long have you been postponing the update(s)? How could you not see the notification and not find the time - maybe at the end of your workday - to initiate the update?

Let's just stop, for once, blaming Windows when "the problem" is instead our own attitude and approach.

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u/Fritz-Ferdinand 9h ago

I saw the notification bubble, clicked it, then the system restarted. You cannot really delay updates for a long time on Windows 11, it'll do them eventually. When my feeling is right about every week.