upgrades when offline

[wally]

I have Vista running on a laptop that is very rarely connected to the net. I
have noticed that even when it is not connected it will 'install upgrades',
last night spending a good 15 minutes doing so before I was allowed to shut
down.

If these upgrades were downloaded at a previous online session, why does it
wait for an offline session to install them?

(apologies if you've already encountered this post in the XP forum)

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

If you had told them to install when the icon in Notification appeared, it
would have. Since a restart was necessary for those updates, it waits till
you shutdown. You have the option to decline the install and wait till next
time.
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