Thursday, October 14, 2004
Windows Nag Screen
One feature in many shareware products is the nag screen. The dialog that pops up and tells you that your eval time has expired and you need to buy the product. With Windows XP, Service Pack 2, Microsoft introduced a worse nag screen in the updated Windows Update.
Yesterday, I downloaded and installed the latest security patches from Microsoft. This time, they required a reboot and I as asked if I wanted to reboot then or wait until later. Well, I was in the middle of some work that I wanted to finish so I selected later. Apparently, later means 15 minutes because every 15 minutes, the dialog popped up again...nagging that the computer needed to reboot to finish installing the security patches.
I didn't count how many times I clicked, "Reboot later", but it was far too many. The first time should have been enough. If I don't reboot in say, two or three hours, then remind me again...but don't nag me every 15 minutes. After all, Windows is not shareware.
Yesterday, I downloaded and installed the latest security patches from Microsoft. This time, they required a reboot and I as asked if I wanted to reboot then or wait until later. Well, I was in the middle of some work that I wanted to finish so I selected later. Apparently, later means 15 minutes because every 15 minutes, the dialog popped up again...nagging that the computer needed to reboot to finish installing the security patches.
I didn't count how many times I clicked, "Reboot later", but it was far too many. The first time should have been enough. If I don't reboot in say, two or three hours, then remind me again...but don't nag me every 15 minutes. After all, Windows is not shareware.
// posted by Craig Berntson @ 9:41:00 AM 
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