Updates causes shutdown failures.

[Bill]

I ran the updates and lo and behold it screwed up the
system. The machine will restart on its own at shut down
and has in some way effected modem speed.

What's up with the updates causing more problems than they fix?

 

[Thorsten Matzner]

I ran the updates and lo and behold it screwed up the
system. The machine will restart on its own at shut down
and has in some way effected modem speed.

See "Windows XP Restarts Unexpectedly or Restarts When You Shut Down
the Computer" (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=320299).