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"Windows will restart your computer automatically in 5:00 minutes."twice in two days
Yesterday, I got the following message:
"Updating your computer is almost complete. Your computer needs to be restarted for the updates to take effect. Windows will restart your computer automatically in 5:00 minutes." I saved what I was doing, rebooted and had the updates installed only to find myself getting the same message today. Why? What is the point of hibernate if Windows is going to start requiring you reboot your computer every day? I'd just assume not disable automatic updates, but this having to reboot every day business is ridiculous. |
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"Windows will restart your computer automatically in 5:00minutes." twice in two days
On Aug 14, 3:41*pm, yawnmoth wrote:
Yesterday, I got the following message: "Updating your computer is almost complete. Your computer needs to be restarted for the updates to take effect. Windows will restart your computer automatically in 5:00 minutes." I saved what I was doing, rebooted and had the updates installed only to find myself getting the same message today. *Why? *What is the point of hibernate if Windows is going to start requiring you reboot your computer every day? I'd just assume not disable automatic updates, but this having to reboot every day business is ridiculous. Set Automatic Update to a "notify me" option instead of letting the updates install themselves. MS publishes updates constantly. |
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"Windows will restart your computer automatically in 5:00 minu
I have a small network of about 20 PCs that also started coming up with the
same message. "updating your computer is almost complete. you must restart your computer for the updates to take effect" Only a handful of the PC's come up with this message and we have restarted all PC's but the message on thos specific units keeps coming up despite restarting the machines. I've checked for solutions online and have found some options to increase the period between restart reminders but am hoping to find a way to complete the update so the reminders go away all together (at least until the next updates are done). All units have XP Pro SP3. Any help would be appreciated. "smlunatick" wrote: On Aug 14, 3:41 pm, yawnmoth wrote: Yesterday, I got the following message: "Updating your computer is almost complete. Your computer needs to be restarted for the updates to take effect. Windows will restart your computer automatically in 5:00 minutes." I saved what I was doing, rebooted and had the updates installed only to find myself getting the same message today. Why? What is the point of hibernate if Windows is going to start requiring you reboot your computer every day? I'd just assume not disable automatic updates, but this having to reboot every day business is ridiculous. Set Automatic Update to a "notify me" option instead of letting the updates install themselves. MS publishes updates constantly. |
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"Windows will restart your computer automatically in 5:00 minutes." twice in two days
[Crosspost to Windows Update & WinXP Help & Support newsgroups]
Is Automatic Updates set to Automatic, Download but Notify, or Notify Only? I saved what I was doing, rebooted and had the updates installed only to find myself getting the same message today. Why? What updates installed the first time? What updates installed the last time? See this discussion: http://groups.google.com/group/micro...f55d900bb64232 -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002 www.banthecheck.com yawnmoth wrote: Yesterday, I got the following message: "Updating your computer is almost complete. Your computer needs to be restarted for the updates to take effect. Windows will restart your computer automatically in 5:00 minutes." I saved what I was doing, rebooted and had the updates installed only to find myself getting the same message today. Why? What is the point of hibernate if Windows is going to start requiring you reboot your computer every day? I'd just assume not disable automatic updates, but this having to reboot every day business is ridiculous. |
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"Windows will restart your computer automatically in 5:00 minutes." twice in two days
yawnmoth wrote:
Yesterday, I got the following message: "Updating your computer is almost complete. Your computer needs to be restarted for the updates to take effect. Windows will restart your computer automatically in 5:00 minutes." I saved what I was doing, rebooted and had the updates installed only to find myself getting the same message today. Why? What is the point of hibernate if Windows is going to start requiring you reboot your computer every day? I'd just assume not disable automatic updates, but this having to reboot every day business is ridiculous. You didn't reboot - you 'hibernated.' Hibernate is no where near the same thing as a re-boot. The next time the message comes up, save your work (do nothing else) and go have a cup of coffee. When you return, all will be well. |
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"Windows will restart your computer automatically in 5:00minutes." twice in two days
On Aug 15, 9:38*am, "HeyBub" wrote:
yawnmoth wrote: Yesterday, I got the following message: "Updating your computer is almost complete. Your computer needs to be restarted for the updates to take effect. Windows will restart your computer automatically in 5:00 minutes." I saved what I was doing, rebooted and had the updates installed only to find myself getting the same message today. *Why? *What is the point of hibernate if Windows is going to start requiring you reboot your computer every day? I'd just assume not disable automatic updates, but this having to reboot every day business is ridiculous. You didn't reboot - you 'hibernated.' Hibernate is no where near the same thing as a re-boot. No... I definitely shut down. I even saw the "Update 1/x is being installed" screen as my laptop was shutting down. I just saw it two days in a row. Maybe one update required another to be installed and the one that was required, itself, required a reboot, but, regardless, it was a little annoying, none-the-less. |
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"Windows will restart your computer automatically in 5:00minutes." twice in two days
On Aug 14, 10:25*am, smlunatick wrote:
On Aug 14, 3:41*pm, yawnmoth wrote: Yesterday, I got the following message: "Updating your computer is almost complete. Your computer needs to be restarted for the updates to take effect. Windows will restart your computer automatically in 5:00 minutes." I saved what I was doing, rebooted and had the updates installed only to find myself getting the same message today. *Why? *What is the point of hibernate if Windows is going to start requiring you reboot your computer every day? I'd just assume not disable automatic updates, but this having to reboot every day business is ridiculous. Set Automatic Update to a "notify me" option instead of letting the updates install themselves. *MS publishes updates constantly. I thought MS only released updates on the so-called "patch tuesdays"?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_Tuesday |
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"Windows will restart your computer automatically in 5:00minutes." twice in two days
On Aug 14, 10:41*am, yawnmoth wrote:
Yesterday, I got the following message: "Updating your computer is almost complete. Your computer needs to be restarted for the updates to take effect. Windows will restart your computer automatically in 5:00 minutes." I saved what I was doing, rebooted and had the updates installed only to find myself getting the same message today. *Why? *What is the point of hibernate if Windows is going to start requiring you reboot your computer every day? I'd just assume not disable automatic updates, but this having to reboot every day business is ridiculous. You will get the countdown message when you have Automatic Updates set to install at a scheduled time and that time is now, close to it or past. It sounds like it is working perfectly and there is nothing ridiculous about it. Reconfigure your AU to behave the way you want with "Download updates for me, but let me choose when to install them" or set the time to something out of the range of your activities. Compare the settings on a system that does not give you that message. Visit the Windows Update page through Internet Explorer and maybe you can better understand what is happening. You will feel more in control, get a history, deny updates, etc. The good part about this is that you can pick and choose any updates for other installed MS products besides XP. It is more accurate to say certain MS patches come out on the second Tuesday. Some I get manually (Office for example). Patch Tuesday has an interesting story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_Tuesday |
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