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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

The worst are the windows ones that require a frikkin' reboot every time. Sometimes it doesn't even ask - it just hijacks your computer and restarts it for you, whether your work is saved or not! Fortunately you can disable this.

Fortunately, if you're running something like Windows Vista or 7, the frequency that you have to reboot has gone way down from XP. I've got Vista, and I rarely have to reboot for an update. I do find it annoying that every once in a while, the Vista updates won't ask me to reboot, but will just do it.

It feels to me like

Vista update w/o reboot 60%-70%
Vista update that asks me to reboot 25%-35%
Vista update that just reboots whether I want it to or not 5% or less

I assume that Win 7 is as good or better. It was frustrating with previous versions of Windows that almost every update required a reboot.

I REALLY hate that an update to Java or Adobe Acrobat or some other random app may want me to reboot.