Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Cathelijne Bertels

Greg S Melander

Jenny T Lam

Judson Craig Hally

Lynn M Muranaka

Angela K Butcher

Cristian Marius Ilac

David Switzer

Gary Scot Henderson

Richard J Swaney

Chung Yiu Chow

An update at shutdown process is disclosed that installs software updates on a computer during the computer's shutdown procedures. On a computing device with an automated shutdown procedure, during the shutdown procedure an update at shutdown process is executed. The update at shutdown process evaluates whether any software updates are currently stored, or are locally available, on the computing device. If there are software updates to be installed, a further evaluation determines whether any of the software updates may be installed without any user interaction. Accordingly, each downloaded/locally available software update that is identified as being installable without user interaction, is installed during the shutdown procedure, thus minimizing the impact that the software updates have on the computer user's use time.

Update at shutdown

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Cathelijne Bertels