Re: Autoupdate XP: shutdown and install updates

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.
|
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