Windows Update and LUA

I don't believe I'm first who's complaining about that, still ...

I have two accounts on my laptop, administrator type and regular user. I've
read a lot about benefits of having least privileges, how it is secure, and
so on, so on, so on. Well, I've bought the idea because it's right and
decided to give it a try. For past six month I perform all my personal
activities under restricted user account. Everything is fine except goddamn
windows update. This thing installs updates and reboots computer without even
asking me if I'm busy with something and shouldn't the system be rebooted
later when it is convenient to me, since I am an owner of the system after
all.
Particularly today this thing interrupted very important process I've been
running that resulted in loss of my precious time (lot of my time actually so
I'm really really upset).

I wonder if you understand how damaging this is to undoubtedly good idea of
LUA, to the idea Microsoft itself keeps promoting?

Now as a workaround I've turned off automatic installation of updates. I
guess I'm safe to work now. Just... isn't it defeating the whole purpose of
automatic updates?

Fix that please.

"sfedorov" <> schrieb:

> This thing installs updates and reboots computer without even
> asking me if I'm busy with something and shouldn't the system be rebooted
> later when it is convenient to me, since I am an owner of the system after
> all.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328010/en-us (NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers)

Bye,
Freudi