>Hi,
>
>I have an application on a locked-down "kiosk" style Windows 2000 image on several PCs. The image has recently been set to perform unattended Windows Updates.
>Is there any way for my app to detect that the update is taking place so that it can complete pending transcations (if any) and gracefully shut itself down, as opposed to Windows doing a brute force shutdown?
>
>TIA

Maybe you can make it work the other way around? Instead of your applicattion checking if WindowsUpdate is running, your application can launch and control the Windows Update? I never tried it, but you can find information here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wua_sdk/wua/windows_update_agent_object_model.asp

and some simple sample here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wua_sdk/wua/searching__downloading__and_installing_updates.asp