Does windows XP update ever reboot automatically?

[Guest Stan Hilliard]

XP Yesterday:

I use windows XP automatic updating. I shutdown the PC overnight.

Often the update is applied when I shut down the PC. But yesterday I

clicked a button on the usual messagebox that instructed it to

shutdown without updating.

 

XP Today:

I started the PC and started Fprot anti virus manually, which takes

about 1/2 hour on my PC. When I later returned to the PC the screen

was at the windows logon screen. The system had logged me off. During

login, I got a balloon message that windows had done an automatic

update & had restarted the computer. I have never seen it update

automatically aromatically before.

 

Is this normal or might something else be taking control of my

computer?

 

Information will be appreciated,

Stan Hilliard

[Guest John Barnett MVP]

Re: Does windows XP update ever reboot automatically?

 

If the update option is set to 'install update automatically (recommended)'

then Windows will access the update site, download any updates, and install

them without asking your permission.

 

Obviously, in some cases Windows needs to shutdown and restart after a

particular update has been installed, this is more than likely what you have

experienced. Regardless of what you are running if you give windows update

carte-blanche to install as and when it likes, if a restart is necessary it

will just do it.

 

Personally I always set windows update to 'download updates but let me

choose whether to install them' This puts me in control of when the PC

restarts after an install.

 

 

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"Stan Hilliard" <usenetreplyMS@samplingplansNOTSPAM.com> wrote in message

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> XP Yesterday:

> I use windows XP automatic updating. I shutdown the PC overnight.

> Often the update is applied when I shut down the PC. But yesterday I

> clicked a button on the usual messagebox that instructed it to

> shutdown without updating.

>

> XP Today:

> I started the PC and started Fprot anti virus manually, which takes

> about 1/2 hour on my PC. When I later returned to the PC the screen

> was at the windows logon screen. The system had logged me off. During

> login, I got a balloon message that windows had done an automatic

> update & had restarted the computer. I have never seen it update

> automatically aromatically before.

>

> Is this normal or might something else be taking control of my

> computer?

>

> Information will be appreciated,

> Stan Hilliard