Do not turn off or unplug your computer

Upon turning off my computer last night a message came up:
"Installing update 1 of 2.
"Do not turn off or unplug your computer; it will turn off automatically."

It's now been running 10 hours. I have a fast machine with 512 MB of memory.

What's up?
--
If they are incharge why can't they make it work?

Hi,
Yesterday everytime I tried to restart or turn off my computer I got the
message
"Installing Updates (1 of 3)...
"Do not turn off or unplug your computer; it will turn off automatically."
And it stays there forever. I had to just hold the power button to shut it
down. The computer started up now, and I found your post. Do you have any
clues?
(I am running Windows XP sp2 Home Edition)
Any help would be appreciated~
Thanks,
Clueless in New England
"Tom" wrote:

> Upon turning off my computer last night a message came up:
> "Installing update 1 of 2.
> "Do not turn off or unplug your computer; it will turn off automatically."
>
> It's now been running 10 hours. I have a fast machine with 512 MB of memory.
>
> What's up?
> --
> If they are incharge why can't they make it work?

any answer to this?
I had the same problem

"Clueless in New England" wrote:

> Hi,
> Yesterday everytime I tried to restart or turn off my computer I got the
> message
> "Installing Updates (1 of 3)...
> "Do not turn off or unplug your computer; it will turn off automatically."
> And it stays there forever. I had to just hold the power button to shut it
> down. The computer started up now, and I found your post. Do you have any
> clues?
> (I am running Windows XP sp2 Home Edition)
> Any help would be appreciated~
> Thanks,
> Clueless in New England
> "Tom" wrote:
>
> > Upon turning off my computer last night a message came up:
> > "Installing update 1 of 2.
> > "Do not turn off or unplug your computer; it will turn off automatically."
> >
> > It's now been running 10 hours. I have a fast machine with 512 MB of memory.
> >
> > What's up?
> > --
> > If they are incharge why can't they make it work?

Same problem here, went to restart and recieved this message. Took almost 11
hours to finish. This is happening on all workstations in the office. What
the heck is Microsoft doing now..?????? Also there doesn't seem to be a Event
created in the event log.

Anyone know what the updates are?????

"lv" wrote:

> any answer to this?
> I had the same problem
>
> "Clueless in New England" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > Yesterday everytime I tried to restart or turn off my computer I got the
> > message
> > "Installing Updates (1 of 3)...
> > "Do not turn off or unplug your computer; it will turn off automatically."
> > And it stays there forever. I had to just hold the power button to shut it
> > down. The computer started up now, and I found your post. Do you have any
> > clues?
> > (I am running Windows XP sp2 Home Edition)
> > Any help would be appreciated~
> > Thanks,
> > Clueless in New England
> > "Tom" wrote:
> >
> > > Upon turning off my computer last night a message came up:
> > > "Installing update 1 of 2.
> > > "Do not turn off or unplug your computer; it will turn off automatically."
> > >
> > > It's now been running 10 hours. I have a fast machine with 512 MB of memory.
> > >
> > > What's up?
> > > --
> > > If they are incharge why can't they make it work?

Tom schrieb am 14.10.04:

> Upon turning off my computer last night a message came up:
> "Installing update 1 of 2.
> "Do not turn off or unplug your computer; it will turn off automatically."
>
> It's now been running 10 hours. I have a fast machine with 512 MB of memory.

Restart your computer and download the update from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...6-2C2264C49E2E

If the installation fails in the normal mode try it again in the safe
mode.

--
Gruß Christine

If you look in Installation History in WU you'll see (hopefully) that 3
updates were succesfully installed...we all got them. It's unfortunate some
of you have slow downloads though. The answer to that is go for a faster
web access.

--
Peter.
Toronto, Canada.
Windows XP Home SP2.
P4 Dual HT @ 3.0ghz, 160gb HD, 1.0gb DDR.
"Mike" <> wrote in message
news:2A42541C-10F2-49BB-8B96-...
> Same problem here, went to restart and recieved this message. Took almost
> 11
> hours to finish. This is happening on all workstations in the office. What
> the heck is Microsoft doing now..?????? Also there doesn't seem to be a
> Event
> created in the event log.
>
> Anyone know what the updates are?????
>
> "lv" wrote:
>
>> any answer to this?
>> I had the same problem
>>
>> "Clueless in New England" wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> > Yesterday everytime I tried to restart or turn off my computer I got
>> > the
>> > message
>> > "Installing Updates (1 of 3)...
>> > "Do not turn off or unplug your computer; it will turn off
>> > automatically."
>> > And it stays there forever. I had to just hold the power button to shut
>> > it
>> > down. The computer started up now, and I found your post. Do you have
>> > any
>> > clues?
>> > (I am running Windows XP sp2 Home Edition)
>> > Any help would be appreciated~
>> > Thanks,
>> > Clueless in New England
>> > "Tom" wrote:
>> >
>> > > Upon turning off my computer last night a message came up:
>> > > "Installing update 1 of 2.
>> > > "Do not turn off or unplug your computer; it will turn off
>> > > automatically."
>> > >
>> > > It's now been running 10 hours. I have a fast machine with 512 MB
>> > > of memory.
>> > >
>> > > What's up?
>> > > --
>> > > If they are incharge why can't they make it work?

I had the same problem, turned off the computer, and ran de update again from
the Microsoft website.
Now de pc takes about 5 minutes to start up - every time. Does start
eventually...
do you recognize this?

"Christine Heinrich" wrote:

> Tom schrieb am 14.10.04:
>
> > Upon turning off my computer last night a message came up:
> > "Installing update 1 of 2.
> > "Do not turn off or unplug your computer; it will turn off automatically."
> >
> > It's now been running 10 hours. I have a fast machine with 512 MB of memory.
>
> Restart your computer and download the update from
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...6-2C2264C49E2E
>
> If the installation fails in the normal mode try it again in the safe
> mode.
>
> --
> Gruß Christine
>

Yvonne schrieb am 14.10.04:

> I had the same problem, turned off the computer, and ran de update again from
> the Microsoft website.
> Now de pc takes about 5 minutes to start up - every time. Does start
> eventually...
> do you recognize this?

Remove the updates. Use the Add or Remove Programs tool in Control
Panel. Then reboot.

Download KB834707 form this site:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...6-2C2264C49E2E
Close all running programs and install the Security Update.

Reboot.

Close all running programs again. Now visit the Microsoft website to
install the other updates.

Christine

> "Christine Heinrich" wrote:
>
>> Tom schrieb am 14.10.04:
>>
>>> Upon turning off my computer last night a message came up:
>>> "Installing update 1 of 2.
>>> "Do not turn off or unplug your computer; it will turn off automatically."
>>>
>>> It's now been running 10 hours. I have a fast machine with 512 MB of memory.
>>
>> Restart your computer and download the update from
>> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...6-2C2264C49E2E
>>
>> If the installation fails in the normal mode try it again in the safe
>> mode.

Shut down your PC, delete temp files, cookies, temporary internet files and
follow further instructions here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822798

I had same problem and tried this, wasn't until I got to the step where you
had to unregister some files, reboot and reregister them that windows updates
worked. Hope this helps.

my mom has the same problem turned on her computer this morning and it is
still saying 1 of 2 updates. I turned my auto updates off after the new win
xp download messed up my computer. So I am not worirng about it. anyone get
it doen

"Mike" wrote:

> Same problem here, went to restart and recieved this message. Took almost 11
> hours to finish. This is happening on all workstations in the office. What
> the heck is Microsoft doing now..?????? Also there doesn't seem to be a Event
> created in the event log.
>
> Anyone know what the updates are?????
>
> "lv" wrote:
>
> > any answer to this?
> > I had the same problem
> >
> > "Clueless in New England" wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > Yesterday everytime I tried to restart or turn off my computer I got the
> > > message
> > > "Installing Updates (1 of 3)...
> > > "Do not turn off or unplug your computer; it will turn off automatically."
> > > And it stays there forever. I had to just hold the power button to shut it
> > > down. The computer started up now, and I found your post. Do you have any
> > > clues?
> > > (I am running Windows XP sp2 Home Edition)
> > > Any help would be appreciated~
> > > Thanks,
> > > Clueless in New England
> > > "Tom" wrote:
> > >
> > > > Upon turning off my computer last night a message came up:
> > > > "Installing update 1 of 2.
> > > > "Do not turn off or unplug your computer; it will turn off automatically."
> > > >
> > > > It's now been running 10 hours. I have a fast machine with 512 MB of memory.
> > > >
> > > > What's up?
> > > > --
> > > > If they are incharge why can't they make it work?