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I don't think the Microsoft update process is compatible even with running Microsoft applications, so I make a practice of shutting cygwin down entirely. I ran the updates, including Office 2003SP2, without major incident yesterday, on Win2K, WinXP-32, and WinXP-64, total of 4 installations, with cygwin installed but shut down. It did take over an hour on the system which is on an ordinary DSL line. There were plenty of pop-ups interspersed on the XP systems, about RealPlayer needing an update but the site being down, or CA anti-virus not being in a mode acceptable to Microsoft. As you know, Microsoft is not very sympathetic to people who want to avoid down time for applications not purchased from them.When running Microsoft update today, on Win2k, the patch for Security Update for DirectX 9 for Windows 2000 (KB904706) hung during installation, with an instance of cygrunsrv hogging 100% CPU, until I had stopped every last one of my cygrunsrv processes. I don't know what the Microsoft update was trying to do to running services during the update, but it obviously didn't interact very well with cygrunsrv.
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