Update Shield Disappears from tray

[Holiday]

Has anyone else noticed that when
updates are downloading the shield
is in the tray, but when the updates
are finished downloading it disappears?
It used to just sit there waiting for you
to click on and install the updates.
I have automatic updates set to
download but not automatically install.
It has been set this way for over a year.
But now it seems it will only allow me to
update when I shut down them machine.
Then I don't have a choice on what is updating.
It just installs all of them.

Holiday

 

[Holiday]

Has anyone else noticed that when
updates are downloading the shield
is in the tray, but when the updates
are finished downloading it disappears?
It used to just sit there waiting for you
to click on and install the updates.
I have automatic updates set to
download but not automatically install.
It has been set this way for over a year.
But now it seems it will only allow me to
update when I shut down them machine.
Then I don't have a choice on what is updating.
It just installs all of them.

Holiday

Apparently I'm the only one that has experienced
this phenomenon... on multiple computers!


Holiday

 

[Rock]

Apparently I'm the only one that has experienced
this phenomenon... on multiple computers!

You might want to look through the posts in and if needed post to the
experts in the Windows Update newsgroup.
microsoft.public.windowsupdate

 

[smlunatick]

Has anyone else noticed that when
updates are downloading the shield
is in the tray, but when the updates
are finished downloading it disappears?
It used to just sit there waiting for you
to click on and install the updates.
I have automatic updates set to
download but not automatically install.
It has been set this way for over a year.
But now it seems it will only allow me to
update when I shut down them machine.
Then I don't have a choice on what is updating.
It just installs all of them.

Holiday

Are you sure your are not noticing the WGA auto-check shield instead?
Windows Genuine Advantage system (WGA) is the "so called" security
check to make sure that you/we are using Genuine valid XP license
key. The system "dials" home to MS to check periodically (for me,
every time I restart my XPs.)

 

[Holiday]

Are you sure your are not noticing the WGA auto-check shield instead?
Windows Genuine Advantage system (WGA) is the "so called" security
check to make sure that you/we are using Genuine valid XP license
key. The system "dials" home to MS to check periodically (for me,
every time I restart my XPs.)

It's not the WGA shield, it's the yellow update shield. It will even
give me a status of the % completed when I roll the mouse over it..
I'll check a minute later and it is at 12% then 40% then 57% ect.
about 4 minutes later it just disappears. When I go to shutdown,
I'm given the option to shutdown after updates are installed or
"click here to shutdown without installing updates".

I apologize for posting to the wrong group. I didn't know about
microsoft.public.windowsupdate. I'll ask there.

Thanks for responding.

Holiday

 

[Rock]

It's not the WGA shield, it's the yellow update shield. It will even
give me a status of the % completed when I roll the mouse over it..
I'll check a minute later and it is at 12% then 40% then 57% ect.
about 4 minutes later it just disappears. When I go to shutdown,
I'm given the option to shutdown after updates are installed or
"click here to shutdown without installing updates".

I apologize for posting to the wrong group. I didn't know about
microsoft.public.windowsupdate. I'll ask there.

No need to apologize. Windows update is a specialty area with it's own
newsgroup so it's best to go there for WU issues. Good luck.