I get it Windows, you’ve updated yourself and now you want to restart. But if I am currently busy utilizing my computer is it so much to ask for you not to ask if you may restart every 5 minutes? Now I understand that there are many people from generations prior to mine who still are not fully comfortable with computers, and therefore need to have their hands held throught their daily interactions with their own computer. However, as past generational members eventually decline in number due to natural causes it will be ever more important for manufacturers of computer software to increase a user’s control over their computer’s operational system. My basic reasoning for this lies in the highly technologically aware status of my generation (myself being born in 1985) and those which have been birthed thereafter. What computing knowledge and technical understanding once led to one being labeled as a “power user” in the 1990s is now equivalent to what a technologically savvy 13 year old considers “normal knowledge”.
As generations continue being more fully saturated by advanced computing and overall technologically-inclined knowledge as time passes, it is natural for what was once considered advanced knowledge to become more commonplace. Yet it seems to me that most software manufacturers, OS manufacturers such as Microsoft in particular, do not do much to enable more advanced management of one’s own computing system. Something as simple as allowing me to choose if I want to be reminded of my OS’s need to restart more than once, or even simply adding a dropdown box which would allow for a “sleep” period to be set for the restart reminder to remain dormant. Another solution is to allow for the setting of “restart times”, similar to how you can already set during which times you want your virus program to scan your computer. Overall though I think that merely being able to set a sleep timer on the notification would be more than sufficient for most users. It’s just simply unnecessary to constantly heckle users with a restart notice every couple minutes, especially with the increasing computer savvy of modern users. I can see the restart notification icon in the taskbar, I don’t need a prompt to pop up when I am using my computer.
Hopefully this easy to include feature will be added sometime in the near future, as since writing this my computer has asked me to restart 5 times… so I’m going to go do that now.
That was an inspiring post,
A lot of interesting points, do you not think that the older generation can catch up with the younger generation?
Thanks for bringing this up
No i never think that older generation could ever keep up with the younger generation. The younger generation has much more experience than the older do this day and this time. With all the all the new cell phone wii mps 3′ no no in this life time.