"paulb104" wrote:
> I turned on my monitor this morning and there was a message from the Windows
> Security Center icon in the tray that Windows restarted due to an automatic
> update.
>
> There were two Notepad files open, both of which were new files, not yet
> saved.
>
> Does XP put that data somewhere, or is all that data lost?

I feel your pain. Sucks that it will reboot even if there are apps open with
unsaved data. Lost an hours work myself last night. Should have saved - but
then, neither should my PC reboot when it's in that state. Evil and stupid.