Hi Susan In reference to your previous mail about the PDF attachment, the updates could be because Adobe is installed. Maybe you should try to uninstall it. Joan Ann. ----- Original Message ----- From: Susan Curry To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 8:48 PM Subject: [vip_students] automatic updates sorry folks, but here is another problem, from i turned on my computer this evening at 7 o clock i keep getting this prompt saying automatic updates then it starts counting 5% 6% 7% ect. if this is windows updates my son in law had this automatically dong this, in other words this has never said this before. maybe it has nothing to do with window updates. can any one help me please? best wishes susan