Quote Originally Posted by Lord Orwell View Post
the installer needs a lot of work. this time, running the same file i already downloaded, it auto-downloaded the update it wanted me to find myself last time, and afterwards it shut down the computer with no warning and rebooted. This is an issue for me since my wife was doing homework in word when it happened.
I have never seen any installer from Microsoft that would automatically reboot your pc - there is always a confirmation dialog asking whether or not you wish to reboot it now or later.
Since the introduction of XP (at least) they would use taskbar notification area to notify user of pending tasks.
What OS do you use? Perhaps it's missing many updates or even SP...