[Sussex] Windows XP -- unexplained shutdown

[John Crowhurst]

On Wed, May 10, 2006 09:45, Andrew Guard wrote:
> John Gregory wrote:
>> Andrew
>>
>> Have you, or the 4 people you know about, been running Windows
>> executables through WINE on a Linux System at some stage?
>>
>> According to the WINE Readme it it possible for it to screw up a Windows
>> installation and it advises using a second separate installation for
>> running windows executable  files.
>>
>
> Nope there true Windows (ie no linux systems).  The idea of a virus also
>    is very slim as all system have a virus checking software ie Norton
> Virus 2005, Nod32, PCGuard etc.  The is some noise on other mailing list
> that it an issue with updated WGA.  The reset only happens once and it
> isn't a system safe reset!

Turn off Automatic Updates from control panel, you can set it to download
and you install the updates later.

I suggest getting the latest copy of autopatcher (from autopatcher.com)
and installing that, especially if you install a fresh copy of SP2 on a
machine, autopatcher will install all the patches in one session and bring
everything up to date.

Windows XP has this uncanny habit of installing patches and prompting the
user for a restart, if its ignored the computer restarts anyway. If you
have any unsaved work open, it will be lost!

--
John