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Look in the windowsupdate.log and figure out what is going on.
Obviously at least one of the updates didn't completely install.

You only get that Install updates & Shutdown option
when there are updates still to install.


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<> wrote in message news:...
> Last week (4/9, six days before this post), I had some XP updates that
> Windows was trying to push on me. When I restarted my computer as I
> always do at days' end, the shutdown menu from the start menu gave me
> a choice - "install updates and shut down" - that I don't usually see.
> I picked that.
>
> These five updates:
>
> - Security Update for ActiveX Killbits for Windows XP (KB948881)
> - Windows XP Security Update for Windows XP (KB941693)
> - Windows XP Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 7 for
> Windows XP (KB947864)
> - Windows XP Security Update for Windows XP (KB948590)
> - Windows XP Security Update for Windows XP (KB945553)
>
> installed successfully.
>
> The problem, minor as it may be, is that now whenever I go to the
> shutdown menu, that option is there and is the default choice.
> Normally, it defaults to whatever I last picked, which, 99% of the
> time, is "restart my computer."
>
> This isn't a huge issue, but I'd like to know how to remove that
> option from the shutdown menu, at least until the next time I shut
> down without installing updates, and I'd like to know how to make the
> shutdown menu revert to defaulting to my last option (usually
> restart).