Perplexing problem

slkcrab said:

Ok, spent the day doing a clean install of XP home and then installed XP 2. Then updated drivers to include the Via 4 in 1 (which solved another problem I was having.)

All was well and good until I started doing the windows updates (critical ones first of course) When prompted to restart I would and upon reboot I would get the screen where you could choose safemode and start windows normally. I picked the latter. A few more updates with the same results to include a boot up that repeated itself into the start up choice screen.

Upon the next update instead of restarting I shutdown the computer. When I powered back up windows booted fine. I did another update and restarted at the prompt and had the same behavior from before.

Anyone offer any insight on this? I've never had this happen before. Thanks!

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Captain Newbie said:

In the latest Windows versions, you MUST shut the computer down to install updates; I do not know if this is true for your current configuration, but the system will NOT install the updates until you shut down completely.

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roYal said:

I have never ever done a shutdown after installing windows update. It's always a restart and I work with computers and do formats and installations on a daily basis. I've never had a problem with the Options Menu coming up either.

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