"Holiday" <Holiday_x******.com> wrote

> On 1 Mar 2007 13:37:06 -0800, "smlunatick" <yveslec******.com> wrote:
>
>>On Feb 26, 3:45 pm, Holiday <Holid...******.com> wrote:
>>> Has anyone else noticed that when
>>> updates are downloading the shield
>>> is in the tray, but when the updates
>>> are finished downloading it disappears?
>>> It used to just sit there waiting for you
>>> to click on and install the updates.
>>> I have automatic updates set to
>>> download but not automatically install.
>>> It has been set this way for over a year.
>>> But now it seems it will only allow me to
>>> update when I shut down them machine.
>>> Then I don't have a choice on what is updating.
>>> It just installs all of them.
>>>
>>> Holiday
>>
>>Are you sure your are not noticing the WGA auto-check shield instead?
>>Windows Genuine Advantage system (WGA) is the "so called" security
>>check to make sure that you/we are using Genuine valid XP license
>>key. The system "dials" home to MS to check periodically (for me,
>>every time I restart my XPs.)
>
> It's not the WGA shield, it's the yellow update shield. It will even
> give me a status of the % completed when I roll the mouse over it..
> I'll check a minute later and it is at 12% then 40% then 57% ect.
> about 4 minutes later it just disappears. When I go to shutdown,
> I'm given the option to shutdown after updates are installed or
> "click here to shutdown without installing updates".
>
> I apologize for posting to the wrong group. I didn't know about
> microsoft.public.windowsupdate. I'll ask there.


No need to apologize. Windows update is a specialty area with it's own
newsgroup so it's best to go there for WU issues. Good luck.

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]