Auto Reboot - Users Losing Documents

Since all of our computers at the office get turned off at night, we have the
automatic update check updates everyday at noon - if the user has a document
on the screen when they go to lunch - many of them come back to rebooted
machines and lost documents - anyway to set up a rule that somehow will
eliminate this from happening? Thanks!

Only have it download the updates and notify the user, rather than having
them installed automatically.

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Mike Matheny

"Lori Dace" <> wrote in message
news:80E4B8FE-86CA-450B-87B4-...
> Since all of our computers at the office get turned off at night, we have
> the
> automatic update check updates everyday at noon - if the user has a
> document
> on the screen when they go to lunch - many of them come back to rebooted
> machines and lost documents - anyway to set up a rule that somehow will
> eliminate this from happening? Thanks!

"Lori Dace" <> wrote in message news:80E4B8FE-86CA-450B-87B4-...
> Since all of our computers at the office get turned off at night, we have the
> automatic update check updates everyday at noon - if the user has a document
> on the screen when they go to lunch - many of them come back to rebooted
> machines and lost documents - anyway to set up a rule that somehow will
> eliminate this from happening? Thanks!


Rule: before leaving your workstation save your work!

I have another rule (a habit from working on unstable mainframes):
pause during long composition => press Ctrl-s (File, Save)

The same thing would happen if there was a power failure
so there should be no excuse for "losing documents".


BTW I must admit that when I am there and tell it: Later
it is really annoying to be continually interrupted as if
I hadn't acknowledged the first time. At least if they would
give me some control over the damn timer it would be less
of an annoyance.


IMO

Robert Aldwinckle
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Don't leave unsaved documents !
Or run updates at night like most people do (myself included)

"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote:

> "Lori Dace" <> wrote in message news:80E4B8FE-86CA-450B-87B4-...
> > Since all of our computers at the office get turned off at night, we have the
> > automatic update check updates everyday at noon - if the user has a document
> > on the screen when they go to lunch - many of them come back to rebooted
> > machines and lost documents - anyway to set up a rule that somehow will
> > eliminate this from happening? Thanks!
>
>
> Rule: before leaving your workstation save your work!
>
> I have another rule (a habit from working on unstable mainframes):
> pause during long composition => press Ctrl-s (File, Save)
>
> The same thing would happen if there was a power failure
> so there should be no excuse for "losing documents".
>
>
> BTW I must admit that when I am there and tell it: Later
> it is really annoying to be continually interrupted as if
> I hadn't acknowledged the first time. At least if they would
> give me some control over the damn timer it would be less
> of an annoyance.
>
>
> IMO
>
> Robert Aldwinckle
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>
>
>
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