Windows Updates

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Can anyone tell me how to not let windows shut my computer off when it
is done installing updates. I work with people around the world and
they take stuff off of my PC and my mac. My mac never does that but
the PC is shut off everyday when I wake up. its getting pretty
annoying.

Thanks
 
Why is your pc installing updates every day? They only come out once a
month.

| Can anyone tell me how to not let windows shut my computer off when it
| is done installing updates. I work with people around the world and
| they take stuff off of my PC and my mac. My mac never does that but
| the PC is shut off everyday when I wake up. its getting pretty
| annoying.
|
| Thanks
|
 
You can set windows to NOT look for updates in the control panel, and then
update manually. It's not that often that updates are released.

Most updates do NOT require the computer to shut down (just a few do). If
yours is shutting down each time something is set wrong. And I don't know
how anyone can take stuff off your pc.
 
Which brings up a discrepancy...
Windows doesn't know the difference in booting whether the PC is shut down
dead in the water, no power applied; OR when doing a reboot/restart. Yet
some of those updates will only be applied with the PC selecting shutdown
completely dead in the water.

Why the need for a complete shutdown, instead of a restart/reboot in the
case of updates need to be applied outside of the windows XP environment?
Which in this case is the answer to the original post, such updates must be
applied outside of the windows XP environment...
 
No, the problem is that I have a dual boot with WinXP Pro and WinXP
MCE 2005 and computer shuts down in Win XP Pro Mode and Starts up in
MCE mode. People take files off of my computer by an FTP server that
is not set up on my MCE, just the WinXP Pro. If you can tell me how to
bump WinXP Pro to the first boot preference, because, right now it is
MCE which I really dont want.

Thanks
Yash
 
Yash said:
No, the problem is that I have a dual boot with WinXP Pro and WinXP
MCE 2005 and computer shuts down in Win XP Pro Mode and Starts up in
MCE mode. People take files off of my computer by an FTP server that
is not set up on my MCE, just the WinXP Pro. If you can tell me how to
bump WinXP Pro to the first boot preference, because, right now it is
MCE which I really dont want.
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Edit the boot.ini file which is a hidden file in the root of the boot drive.
Here is a link to an MS KB article on how to do this.

How to edit the Boot.ini file in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289022/en-us

You want to change the default line in boot.ini to specify the
disk/partition where XP Pro is installed. If you need help copy and past
the boot.ini file here.
 
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