Windows Update can be a pain. Rebooting for updates is one thing — but a forced reboot for updates that shut down your running applications when you’re trying to get work done? Now, that’s obnoxious.

For the most part, I think Windows works quite well. My daily PC has been running with the same installation for about 18 months. I don't think I've ever had a system hang or a forced reboot. Unless ...

There's a weekly task set at friday 3am that I still haven't figured out how to cancel, so that woke me up this morning, I goto switch users and then put it back to sleep without logging in. So I wake ...