>>When turning off Windows it offered option to install updates then turn off, which I chose. That lead to a message not to unplug machine, indicating that it would turn itself off automatically. That happened almost an hour ago...
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>>Is that normal? What can be done if so much time passes, for example 24 hours, that it probably means a hung process?
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>>TIA,
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>>Alex
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>Some updates can take a LONG time (hours). If you are running XP, you may be getting SP3 which is being forced now IIRC.

I am afraid I may have been too impatient when I turned off machine. Now it works OK, but after a while the explorer process takes over 95% of CPU.