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This is on you. You prepare your computer ahead of time. Do updates the night before, check if everything works. You also have an empty battery? Like I loathe windows as much as anyone, but this would never ever happen to me. I triple check it all, especially if it runs windows.
That looks like a conference room PC, I would doubt OP even has any control over that and possibly didn't even have access to the room until right before
It isn't their computer.
It's likely on a campus domain managed by campus IT and should be configured with a sane update policy that automatically does this overnight when the systems aren't being used.
Forced updates are still terrible.
nah. at worst it's the lesser of two evils. the alternative is keeping a crushing majority of the user base vulnerable forever because virtually no one likes to voluntarily update their os.
No, they're terrible. Windows can and does know when a system is least in use and is supposed to handle this during those periods. Updates are important but this is an excessive and unnecessary way to fix the issue of people not performing their own updates.
... and it does handle this during those periods. unless you tell it not to. or set the non working hours wrong.
I'd rather work with my PC than around my PC.
It's why I much prefer Linux