XP SP2 Again...

[arcturus]

I now have two customers with exactly the same problem. Both are running XP Home SP2, one on an Athlon XP 1700 and the other on a Celeron 2.4.

SP2 was installed on both a few weeks ago and has been fine up to now. In the last week Automatic Update has downloaded an update and installs it on shutdown, giving a message along the lines of 'An update is being installed. Do not turn off your computer. It will shut itself down when the installation is complete.'

The only snag is it doesn't shut itself down and if you do a manual reset then the same thing happens on the next shutdown.

The same update installed on all 3 of our office computers with no problems. The same messgae appeared and 30 secs later sure enough they shut down as advertised and have given no further problems.

Any one else seen this and have any clues on how to fix? I have Googled but no joy. Can't find anything on the M$ site either. I can't even tell which update it was that caaused the problem.

[GregE240]

Have you checked for something in thr [Run} or less likely the [Runonce] part of the registry?

The only post SP2 critical update is the GDI update. You might want to have a look at that?

[arcturus]

Checked the registry - nothing unusual in either part you mention. Will look into the GDI issue.

[zumbruk]

Switch off automatic updates. Why would you want to give anyone, much less Microsoft, the ability to run stuff on your PCs?

I do all my updates manually. I even had to do SP2 that way afetr three failed attempts to get it to install from WindowsUpdate.

[arcturus]

zumbruk said:

Switch off automatic updates.

Whilst that's fine for those of us who understand the implications, I would rather leave then turned on on my customers who don't know the first thing about computers. Otherwise they will never, ever update.

[andygo]

Download registry mechanic from here:

http://downloads.wugnet.com/affiliates/tweakxp/registrymechanic-tweakxp.exe

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>> Edited by andygo on Friday 22 October 07:59

[_Nathan_]

to install SP2, or not too ? That is the question

[Jay-Aim]

_Nathan_ said:

to install SP2, or not too ? That is the question

install

[piccy mate]

Hmmmmmmm. The second site is not the one I'd send legal minded people to.
Piccy

andygo said:

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