What is this With Windows XPPro Logoff?

YO_KID37

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I Was Shutting down last night and got stuck on the Logging off screen and got this for the first time ever

"Installing Update 1 of 6"
the then it switches to


"Do not turn off or Unplug your Computer; it will turn off Automatically?"

Is this a forced update because of the Hotmail Live flaw I heard about this yesterday morning

Anybody got the same thing happen? or any one know what's going on??
 

NMDante

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I Was Shutting down last night and got stuck on the Logging off screen and got this for the first time ever

"Installing Update 1 of 6"
the then it switches to


"Do not turn off or Unplug your Computer; it will turn off Automatically?"

Is this a forced update because of the Hotmail Live flaw I heard about this yesterday morning

Anybody got the same thing happen? or any one know what's going on??

I get those if I have my Windows Update on automatic sometimes.

I guess it downloads the stuff and waits for either a reboot or shutdown. When I reboot or shutdown, I see the same messages.

If it has anything to do with the Hotmail thing, is beyond me, but I have seen this almost 4-5 months ago, with the whole WGA thing, I believe.
 

YO_KID37

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It just seems kinda Odd And no I've not got my Update on Auto because i've got a WGA update on pending and it still is. But it was on the Log off screen. And i've never got a post-logoff or a pre log-in Update screen This level of update seems to be Driver and Subsystem levels
 

kamel5547

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Patch Tuesday was 3 days ago, if you have updates scheduled it will attempt to install them when you shut down or at the reularly scheduled time whichever comes first. You can avoid this by choosing "Shut Down" rather than "Install Updates and Shut Down" in the drop down box.

WGA requires that youa ccept a license agreement, it cannot be automatically isntalled. Any hotmail flaw is server side and will not be patched on you machine, rather the server or page coding must be corrected, or the supporting technology (Java for example) must be patched, not Windows.