Re: Autoupdate XP: shutdown and install updates

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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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