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never ending process



On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 08:35:00AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> 
> I just installed Windows 2000 AS because I am unable to get a remote
> access through a Ctrix gateway running on Linux in the office.
> (Although I can at home).  After the install there were 43 critical
> updates +  abunch of Windows 2000 updates and 1 driver update. After
> installing all of these (and the apropriate reboots), 1 new critical
> update appeared, so I installed that. I should have had zero updates
> waiting. I checked the update screen again, and there were an
> additional 3. 

Some updates are prerequisites for others, and the others won't show up,
as you are seeing, until you've installed the prerequisites and
rebooted.  This is for the most part a Windows-izm, I think.

-David




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