Reboot?

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Sid Elbow

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



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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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Dave said:
It may have to do with the specific HAL that was loaded but better to
ask the application developer.
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You're probably right .... unfortunately it's the free version of AVG
for which, I believe, they don't provide support.
 
Sid Elbow said:
You're probably right .... unfortunately it's the free version of AVG
for which, I believe, they don't provide support.
Click to expand...


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"
 
philo said:
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"
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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)
 
Sid Elbow said:
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)
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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 !
 
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.

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