Autoupdate XP: shutdown and install updates

I noticed that on a lot of XP computers (in my university, my friedns' ...),
when I click shutdown and install updates it takes a lot of time 10 to 15
minutes. There is a lot of disk activity and the progress bar is very slow.
I am curious to know why?

PS:
I haven't used XP for about 3 years or more. I have one license for Windows
2003 Server Enterprise on my home PC, I download and install updates.exe
files manually (auto-update is disabled) and it only takes a few seconds to
install all of them.

George Valkov wrote:
> I noticed that on a lot of XP computers (in my university, my
> friedns' ...), when I click shutdown and install updates it takes a
> lot of time 10 to 15 minutes. There is a lot of disk activity and
> the progress bar is very slow. I am curious to know why?
>
> PS:
> I haven't used XP for about 3 years or more. I have one license for
> Windows 2003 Server Enterprise on my home PC, I download and
> install updates.exe files manually (auto-update is disabled) and it
> only takes a few seconds to install all of them.

It's INSTALLING UPDATES when you select "Install Updates and then
Shutdown"...

So yeah - it's going to take some time to install them... It will create
disk activity as it installs them... Depending on the updates (the .NET ones
are generally huge) large updates will take more time than the small
updates.

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Shenan Stanley
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Thank You for the answer, Shenan!

It just reminded me, that I don't have neither antivirus software nor system
restore, and I usually pass the /passive /norestart /overwriteoem /nobackup
switches.

Probably when a computer has antivirus software and system restore, and when
the hot-fixes installer creates a backup of what is installed, perhaps in
that situation the update task becomes really a heavy one? One backs-up and
installs, the other backs-up all changes, while the third sniffs on the top
of them all... Sound nice! :-)


George Valkov



"Shenan Stanley" :
| George Valkov wrote:
| > I noticed that on a lot of XP computers (in my university, my
| > friedns' ...), when I click shutdown and install updates it takes a
| > lot of time 10 to 15 minutes. There is a lot of disk activity and
| > the progress bar is very slow. I am curious to know why?
| >
| > PS:
| > I haven't used XP for about 3 years or more. I have one license for
| > Windows 2003 Server Enterprise on my home PC, I download and
| > install updates.exe files manually (auto-update is disabled) and it
| > only takes a few seconds to install all of them.
|
| It's INSTALLING UPDATES when you select "Install Updates and then
| Shutdown"...
|
| So yeah - it's going to take some time to install them... It will create
| disk activity as it installs them... Depending on the updates (the .NET
ones
| are generally huge) large updates will take more time than the small
| updates.
|
| --
| Shenan Stanley
| MS-MVP
| --
| How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
| http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
|
|