On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:20:42 -0400, foobar5@home.com wrote:

>On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:31:57 +1300, "Harry Johnston [MVP]"
><harry@scms.waikato.ac.nz> wrote:
>
>>foobar5@home.com wrote:
>>
>>> When I went to shut my computer down tonight, instead of the normal
>>> standby, turn off, restart popup, I had that, but there was a Windows
>>> security shield superimposed on the turn off icon, and a message at
>>> the bottom of the popup saying "Click Turn Off to install important
>>> updates and turn off your computer. Click here to turn off without
>>> installing updates."
>>
>>Start by looking in WindowsUpdate.log (usually found in c:\windows). If you
>>have trouble interpreting it, post the last hundred lines or so here.
>>
>> Harry.
>>
>
>There are around 1300 pieces of activity in my
>c:\windows\windowsupdate.log for 2008-10-14. There are already 51
>activities for 2008-10-15 and the day is young!
>
>http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1ME2YPEQ has the file as it currently
>exists.
>
>FWIW, my c:\windows directory has 16 files from 2008-09-09 (September
>patch Tuesday), one from 2008-09-23, and the following from
>2008-10-14:
>
>* KB956390-IE7.log
>* setupapi.log
>* SchedLgU.Txt
>* bootstat.dat
>* wiaservc.log
>* wiadebug.log
>* 0.log (NOTE: zero-length file)
>
>And there's the WindowsUpldate.log, which was time stamped 04:51 this
>morning, from when I got on. As I said, 51 entries in it.
>
>A cursory scan of the logs shows nothing too weird. I'm guessing that
>KB956390 related to IE7 is the only thing it's trying to install.
>
>Still feel funny about how Windows is just pushing an update or
>updates on me without telling me what they are.

Okay, more weirdness.

I downloaded IE7-WindowsXP-KB956390-x86-ENU.exe directly from MS.
Installed that and restarted computer and no problems.

BUT... it doesn't show up in my update history when I run Windows
Update, and I'm still getting the "Click Turn Off to install important
updates and turn off your computer. Click here to turn off without
installing updates." message when I try to shut down or restart.

Perhaps these lines from my WindowsUpdate.log might be of interest:

2008-10-15 06:00:17:359 988 be4 Agent * Added
update {3DE030BB-2666-44F6-9B15-E02FE518833F}.100 to search result
2008-10-15 06:00:17:359 988 be4 Agent * Added
update {424B1C8F-742A-4614-8012-1BB25B527706}.100 to search result
2008-10-15 06:00:17:359 988 be4 Agent * Added
update {650F9FB5-032E-41BB-B31B-4210AC074F8B}.102 to search result
2008-10-15 06:00:17:359 988 be4 Agent * Added
update {25EE37D4-1EB2-4546-843F-AD0AC80BC14E}.104 to search result
2008-10-15 06:00:17:359 988 be4 Agent * Added
update {33A7EDF1-2350-4102-8082-9540EFF65704}.102 to search result
2008-10-15 06:00:17:359 988 be4 Agent * Added
update {8FD536A6-5577-432D-8031-3369530913DC}.102 to search result
2008-10-15 06:00:17:359 988 be4 Agent * Added
update {336530D3-9AE4-42DF-9606-4FB35D46CEFC}.102 to search result
2008-10-15 06:00:17:359 988 be4 Agent * Found 7
updates and 42 categories in search; evaluated appl. rules of 278 out
of 661 deployed entities

Still not seeing yellow Windows Update shield in my system tray.