Strange issue caused by Microsoft.

I have been locked out of the net due to the massive size of this constant download since yesterday evening.

Two of my machines have been downloading the same 421 megabyte updates every few minutes.

After automatic updates the system shows windows 3 of 3 0% and goes into a loop by restarting itself

The issue seems to have been resolved by:

#1. Turn OFF automatic updates.
#2. Shut down the computer.
#3. Start the computer.
#4. Turn ON automatic updates.



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What is "Windows XP?"

Earlier this year, MS announced that it was going to end XP support . . . . in 2014, along with Office 2003.

An OS used by about 50% of the corporate world?

I'd like to keep XP forever. Why go thorough the agony of another operating system from MS?

Everything that you have mastered must be relearned.

Um, yeah, I work in IT. It was a joke, hence the smilies.

Figured you was a Mackie....

We're likely to be the last generation to have to deal with a desktop OS, considering the direction that computing is going. We've come back nearly full circle to "dumb terminals" connected to servers.

Shouldn't it have been 7 smilies...

Certainly not an entire Vista of smilies, that would take too long, and likley crash on you...

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1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

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Not me. Never been a big apple-ite.

I inadvertently followed the steps above (1-4) before reading this. It did the trick. Call me lucky.

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....and a whole passel of BMW 2002 and Tii

A properly designed desktop OS (read: OS X, some Unix variants, jury is still out on Win 8) doesn't have to be "dealt with" -- it's just usable. And a lot of data have no business being in the "cloud", or really anywhere else other than in the user's home or place of business.

I think the future will be a hybrid of online and local. With processing capability and storage being dirt cheap, it's asinine not to utilize it on the local device.

Re: centralised computing

I think that that could be the case for simple office situations where you are just typing in data - however - as things seem to be getting more graphic orientated and everyone seems to be waving their arms about in exagerated gestures the simple solution will end up being killed off by the bandwidth required to send all of this extra information. You're going to need computing power on the machine (and therefore an operating system) to send the letter "A" to line 32 column 8...

...the days of antiquated data input are numbered - an over complicated solution is in our future!

As for getting XP to work - the only way I have had reasonable results is to run it in a virtual machine so that when it dies I just kill it and restart from the host OS.

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Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!