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Vista To Be Updated Without Reboots

Posted by Zonk on from the welcome-to-the-world-of-tomorrow dept.

UltimaGuy writes "Microsoft is working on a new feature for Windows Vista, known as Restart Manager, which will update parts of the operating system or applications without having to reboot the entire machine. From the article: 'If a part of an application, or the operating system itself, needs to updated, the Installer will call the Restart Manager, which looks to see if it can clear that part of the system so that it can be updated. If it can do that, it does, and that happens without a reboot.'"

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  1. Lets get it out of the way right now.... by nicholasjay · · Score: 1, Redundant

    How is this new, my {Unix| Mac| Linux} system has done this for years...
      Ok, I don't want to hear any more about it.

  2. Wow by GmAz · · Score: 1, Redundant

    You guys auctually used to restart the whole machine. A simple logoff/login works too. Plus I never reboot. When it asks if I want to reboot now, I say no and keep going. I have rarely (like 1 in 100) had an issue.

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  3. Finally! by Manfre · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If this works as advertised, it will be a great thing.

  4. Could but won't. by majikfox · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Restart Manager will check to see if updates can be installed without rebooting and find that they can't. Windows XP already does this. Why would you reboot the system if you don't need to? But you always do. If you update the Windows kernel, everything that depends on it has to be unloaded and reloaded. If you did this without rebooting, hypothetically speaking, you'd have to unload and re-load every component, which would take just as long if not longer than rebooting. That's just the way Windows works. Remember how excited everyone was that you could install USB devices without rebooting in Windows? Then the devices became more complex and required drivers that caused the user to have to reboot, then that all went to hell. I'm sure bank robbers check to see if they need to rob a bank before they go to do a crack deal too.

  5. The 1980s called. by Noog · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They want their features back.