Reboot?

I have an odd situation that may (or may not) be related to my Win2K
configuration.

I run AVG antivirus on 4 machines all with Win2K. AVG is set to update
automatically each day.

Recently, on one machine only, the update software is demanding a
machine reboot to complete the update. It didn't used to do this and
none of the other machines do it and they are all receiving the same
updates.

This leads me to believe it's a difference in OS configuration which is
necessitating this reboot. It's a minor nuisance but does anyone have
any idea what might affect this?

Dave
Sat Mar 22 07:47:46 PDT 2008

It may have to do with the specific HAL that was loaded but better to ask
the application developer.



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"Sid Elbow" wrote:
>I have an odd situation that may (or may not) be related to my Win2K
>configuration.
>
> I run AVG antivirus on 4 machines all with Win2K. AVG is set to update
> automatically each day.
>
> Recently, on one machine only, the update software is demanding a machine
> reboot to complete the update. It didn't used to do this and none of the
> other machines do it and they are all receiving the same updates.
>
> This leads me to believe it's a difference in OS configuration which is
> necessitating this reboot. It's a minor nuisance but does anyone have any
> idea what might affect this?

Sid
Sat Mar 22 10:36:52 PDT 2008

Dave Patrick wrote:
> It may have to do with the specific HAL that was loaded but better to
> ask the application developer.

You're probably right .... unfortunately it's the free version of AVG
for which, I believe, they don't provide support.

philo
Sat Mar 22 13:46:27 PDT 2008


"Sid Elbow" <here@there.com> wrote in message
news:47e54c15$0$28122$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
> Dave Patrick wrote:
> > It may have to do with the specific HAL that was loaded but better to
> > ask the application developer.
>
> You're probably right .... unfortunately it's the free version of AVG
> for which, I believe, they don't provide support.


open AVG control center

highlight "update manager"

then look at properties and see if perhaps

it's set to "update upon next computer restart"

rather than "update immediately"

Sid
Sat Mar 22 17:29:09 PDT 2008

philo wrote:

> open AVG control center
>
> highlight "update manager"
>
> then look at properties and see if perhaps
>
> it's set to "update upon next computer restart"
>
> rather than "update immediately"

Good thought, but ... it's set to "update immediately"

As a sub-setting, it's set to "require confirmation from the user, *if*
restart is required". I could change this last setting to "complete at
next computer restart" which would at least get rid of the nuisance window.

(Doesn't satisfy my curiosity though as to why this suddenly started
happening on one machine out of four)

philo
Sun Mar 23 04:19:16 PDT 2008


"Sid Elbow" <here@there.com> wrote in message
news:47e5a6a1$0$3890$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
> philo wrote:
>
> > open AVG control center
> >
> > highlight "update manager"
> >
> > then look at properties and see if perhaps
> >
> > it's set to "update upon next computer restart"
> >
> > rather than "update immediately"
>
> Good thought, but ... it's set to "update immediately"
>
> As a sub-setting, it's set to "require confirmation from the user, *if*
> restart is required". I could change this last setting to "complete at
> next computer restart" which would at least get rid of the nuisance
window.
>
> (Doesn't satisfy my curiosity though as to why this suddenly started
> happening on one machine out of four)

Yes I agree.
Whenever I run into a problem I always like to know exactly why it
happened...
but through the years as I've run into so many problems...I generally just
come up with some work-around
and move on !

Tom
Mon Mar 24 06:52:37 PDT 2008

We had that problem (using the paid version) on one of our servers. It was
a bad driver which AVG support replaced.

I would recommend using the AVG Free forums.

"Sid Elbow" <here@there.com> wrote in message
news:47e54c15$0$28122$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
: Dave Patrick wrote:
: > It may have to do with the specific HAL that was loaded but better to
: > ask the application developer.
:
: You're probably right .... unfortunately it's the free version of AVG
: for which, I believe, they don't provide support.

Sid
Mon Mar 24 13:44:00 PDT 2008

Thanks, Tom. If it's simply a bad AVG driver then the simplest solution
would probably be to uninstall/reinstall AVG.



Tom [Pepper] Willett wrote:
> We had that problem (using the paid version) on one of our servers. It was
> a bad driver which AVG support replaced.
>
> I would recommend using the AVG Free forums.
>
> "Sid Elbow" <here@there.com> wrote in message
> news:47e54c15$0$28122$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
> : Dave Patrick wrote:
> : > It may have to do with the specific HAL that was loaded but better to
> : > ask the application developer.
> :
> : You're probably right .... unfortunately it's the free version of AVG
> : for which, I believe, they don't provide support.
>
>