for those of you who maintain Oracle on win32 operating systems ... Event Type: Information Event Source: Automatic Updates Event Category: Installation Event ID: 22 Date: 12/15/2004 Time: 3:06:23 AM User: N/A Description: Restart Required: To complete the installation of the following updates, the computer will be restarted within five minutes. Until this computer has been restarted, Windows cannot search for or download new updates. - Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB885835) followed by: Event Type: Error Event Source: EventLog Event Category: None Event ID: 6008 Date: 12/15/2004 Time: 3:30:46 AM User: N/A Description: The previous system shutdown at 3:27:30 AM on 12/15/2004 was unexpected. Still so far to go ... Paul -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l