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Old August 14th 09, 03:41 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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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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Old August 14th 09, 04:25 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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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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Old August 14th 09, 11:07 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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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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Old August 14th 09, 11:24 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsupdate,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
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[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
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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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Old August 15th 09, 03:38 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default "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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Old August 17th 09, 02:44 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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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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Old August 17th 09, 02:47 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
yawnmoth
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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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Old August 17th 09, 04:21 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Jose
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Default "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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