From: "Robert Comer" 

> I don't remember the shield icons. Has my system been modified without my
> knowledge? Notice I have it set to download but let me choose when to
> install. It appears it has. Look at the pictures on this site:

It sure looks like you've been updated to SP2!

Look at the "General" page and it'll say.

- Bob Comer



"Gregg N"  wrote in message
news:411fc94f{at}w3.nls.net...
>I have Windows XP SP1. Today when I tried to connect to my company's VPN
> server, Zone Alarm issued a "changed program" warning for Windows
> Explorer. The version of explorer.exe is 6.0.2800.1221, and the date is
> May 11, 2003, but Zone Alarm indicated XP SP2 in its description. I
> thought probably zone alarm was confused, so I killed it and restarted
> it and did not get the warning again.
>
> Then I noticed these weird  ESENT events in my application event log.
> There are about forty of these events, appearing for the first time on
> 8/14 at 1:52pm. They say
>
> wuauclt (192) The database engine 5.01.2600.0000 started.
> wuaueng.dll (2496) SUS20ClientDataStore: The database engine started a
> new instance (0).
> wuaueng.dll (2496) SUS20ClientDataStore: The database engine stopped the
> instance (0).
> wuauclt (2496) The database engine stopped.
>
> I assume that wu stands for windows update. Then I noticed that the
> Automatic Updates page on System Properties looks different from what I
> remember.
>
> Automatic Update Dialog Image
>
> I don't remember the shield icons. Has my system been modified without
> my knowledge? Notice I have it set to download but let me choose when to
> install. It appears it has. Look at the pictures on this site:
>
> http://wcts.whitman.edu/docs/AutomaticUpdates/
>
>
> Gregg
>
>


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>I have Windows XP SP1. Today when I tried to connect to my company's VPN
>server, Zone Alarm issued a "changed program" warning for
Windows Explorer.
>The version of explorer.exe is 6.0.2800.1221, and the date is May 11, 2003,
>but Zone Alarm indicated XP SP2 in its description. I thought probably zone
>alarm was confused, so I killed it and restarted it and did not get the
>warning again.
>
> Then I noticed these weird  ESENT events in my application event log.
> There are about forty of these events, appearing for the first time on
> 8/14 at 1:52pm. They say
>
> wuauclt (192) The database engine 5.01.2600.0000 started.
> wuaueng.dll (2496) SUS20ClientDataStore: The database engine started a new
> instance (0).
> wuaueng.dll (2496) SUS20ClientDataStore: The database engine stopped the
> instance (0).
> wuauclt (2496) The database engine stopped.
>
> I assume that wu stands for windows update. Then I noticed that the
> Automatic Updates page on System Properties looks different from what I
> remember.
>
>
>
> I don't remember the shield icons. Has my system been modified without my
> knowledge? Notice I have it set to download but let me choose when to
> install. It appears it has. Look at the pictures on this site:
>
> http://wcts.whitman.edu/docs/AutomaticUpdates/
>
>
> Gregg
>
>

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