Good and not good.

[Guest oldcain]

XP (currently fully up to date) has always had the following peculiar aspect:

Windows Defender updates are notified and the process always completes as

one would expect.

If the auto update notification includes anything other than Defender, the

dialog box is fine and when sent off to do the job, the shield vanishes after

a minute or so and that's the end of that process --- no files are processed

and no further prompts.

 

A subsequent visit to the download centre, and do the rituals, and the

process works fine, except that after a variable interval during the install

of downloaded updates, the shield re-appears and says that downloads are

available for installation etc.. In fact there appears to be two instances of

updating operating simultaneously.

None of this is life-threatening, but isn't it a bit odd?

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Never tamper with natural ignorance.

[Guest Simon D]

oldcain pretended :

> XP (currently fully up to date) has always had the following peculiar aspect:

> Windows Defender updates are notified and the process always completes as

> one would expect.

> If the auto update notification includes anything other than Defender, the

> dialog box is fine and when sent off to do the job, the shield vanishes after

> a minute or so and that's the end of that process --- no files are processed

> and no further prompts.

>

> A subsequent visit to the download centre, and do the rituals, and the

> process works fine, except that after a variable interval during the install

> of downloaded updates, the shield re-appears and says that downloads are

> available for installation etc.. In fact there appears to be two instances of

> updating operating simultaneously.

> None of this is life-threatening, but isn't it a bit odd?

 

I find exactly the same thing with both my desktop and my laptop (both

running XP Home SP2).

 

I don't know if the automatic update would complete if I gave it long

enough or not this morning it had downloaded one of the two XP updates

after about an hour, at which point I ran Microsoft Update in my

browser and it quickly retrieved the second update and installed both.

Odd.

 

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Simon