Guest Sid Elbow Posted March 22, 2008 Posted March 22, 2008 I have an odd situation that may (or may not) be related to my Win2K configuration. I run AVG antivirus on 4 machines all with Win2K. AVG is set to update automatically each day. Recently, on one machine only, the update software is demanding a machine reboot to complete the update. It didn't used to do this and none of the other machines do it and they are all receiving the same updates. This leads me to believe it's a difference in OS configuration which is necessitating this reboot. It's a minor nuisance but does anyone have any idea what might affect this?
Guest Dave Patrick Posted March 22, 2008 Posted March 22, 2008 Re: Reboot? It may have to do with the specific HAL that was loaded but better to ask the application developer. -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect "Sid Elbow" wrote: >I have an odd situation that may (or may not) be related to my Win2K >configuration. > > I run AVG antivirus on 4 machines all with Win2K. AVG is set to update > automatically each day. > > Recently, on one machine only, the update software is demanding a machine > reboot to complete the update. It didn't used to do this and none of the > other machines do it and they are all receiving the same updates. > > This leads me to believe it's a difference in OS configuration which is > necessitating this reboot. It's a minor nuisance but does anyone have any > idea what might affect this?
Guest Sid Elbow Posted March 22, 2008 Posted March 22, 2008 Re: Reboot? Dave Patrick wrote: > It may have to do with the specific HAL that was loaded but better to > ask the application developer. You're probably right .... unfortunately it's the free version of AVG for which, I believe, they don't provide support.
Guest philo Posted March 22, 2008 Posted March 22, 2008 Re: Reboot? "Sid Elbow" <here@there.com> wrote in message news:47e54c15$0$28122$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com... > Dave Patrick wrote: > > It may have to do with the specific HAL that was loaded but better to > > ask the application developer. > > You're probably right .... unfortunately it's the free version of AVG > for which, I believe, they don't provide support. open AVG control center highlight "update manager" then look at properties and see if perhaps it's set to "update upon next computer restart" rather than "update immediately"
Guest Sid Elbow Posted March 23, 2008 Posted March 23, 2008 Re: Reboot? philo wrote: > open AVG control center > > highlight "update manager" > > then look at properties and see if perhaps > > it's set to "update upon next computer restart" > > rather than "update immediately" Good thought, but ... it's set to "update immediately" As a sub-setting, it's set to "require confirmation from the user, *if* restart is required". I could change this last setting to "complete at next computer restart" which would at least get rid of the nuisance window. (Doesn't satisfy my curiosity though as to why this suddenly started happening on one machine out of four)
Guest philo Posted March 23, 2008 Posted March 23, 2008 Re: Reboot? "Sid Elbow" <here@there.com> wrote in message news:47e5a6a1$0$3890$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com... > philo wrote: > > > open AVG control center > > > > highlight "update manager" > > > > then look at properties and see if perhaps > > > > it's set to "update upon next computer restart" > > > > rather than "update immediately" > > Good thought, but ... it's set to "update immediately" > > As a sub-setting, it's set to "require confirmation from the user, *if* > restart is required". I could change this last setting to "complete at > next computer restart" which would at least get rid of the nuisance window. > > (Doesn't satisfy my curiosity though as to why this suddenly started > happening on one machine out of four) Yes I agree. Whenever I run into a problem I always like to know exactly why it happened... but through the years as I've run into so many problems...I generally just come up with some work-around and move on !
Guest Tom [Pepper] Willett Posted March 24, 2008 Posted March 24, 2008 Re: Reboot? We had that problem (using the paid version) on one of our servers. It was a bad driver which AVG support replaced. I would recommend using the AVG Free forums. "Sid Elbow" <here@there.com> wrote in message news:47e54c15$0$28122$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com... : Dave Patrick wrote: : > It may have to do with the specific HAL that was loaded but better to : > ask the application developer. : : You're probably right .... unfortunately it's the free version of AVG : for which, I believe, they don't provide support.
Guest Sid Elbow Posted March 24, 2008 Posted March 24, 2008 Re: Reboot? Thanks, Tom. If it's simply a bad AVG driver then the simplest solution would probably be to uninstall/reinstall AVG. Tom [Pepper] Willett wrote: > We had that problem (using the paid version) on one of our servers. It was > a bad driver which AVG support replaced. > > I would recommend using the AVG Free forums. > > "Sid Elbow" <here@there.com> wrote in message > news:47e54c15$0$28122$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com... > : Dave Patrick wrote: > : > It may have to do with the specific HAL that was loaded but better to > : > ask the application developer. > : > : You're probably right .... unfortunately it's the free version of AVG > : for which, I believe, they don't provide support. > >
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