oldcain pretended :
> XP (currently fully up to date) has always had the following peculiar aspect:
> Windows Defender updates are notified and the process always completes as
> one would expect.
> If the auto update notification includes anything other than Defender, the
> dialog box is fine and when sent off to do the job, the shield vanishes after
> a minute or so and that's the end of that process --- no files are processed
> and no further prompts.
>
> A subsequent visit to the download centre, and do the rituals, and the
> process works fine, except that after a variable interval during the install
> of downloaded updates, the shield re-appears and says that downloads are
> available for installation etc.. In fact there appears to be two instances of
> updating operating simultaneously.
> None of this is life-threatening, but isn't it a bit odd?
I find exactly the same thing with both my desktop and my laptop (both
running XP Home SP2).
I don't know if the automatic update would complete if I gave it long
enough or not; this morning it had downloaded one of the two XP updates
after about an hour, at which point I ran Microsoft Update in my
browser and it quickly retrieved the second update and installed both.
Odd.
--
Simon
|
Linear Mode
