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When I power my workstation on I have come to expect a short delay as the BIOS and OS load (it is a older and underpowered system). What I can't stand is the need for Windows Update to delay the load of the login screen to complete the installation of updates.
I can understand that some updates need a re-boot to complete - when I select the 'Update and Shutdown' option, I expect that the computer should do whatever it has to to apply those updates.
When a user turns a computer on, the system should be ready.
Twice in the last two weeks I've had to boot-up my workstation to solve a problem at work, I've had to wait for updates to be applied.
My biggest fear regarding this issue is that the practice will continue in future versions of the OS, and possibly spread to older versions via service packs. As I said, the OS should do what ever it needs to once the command to update and shut down has been given.
Please post a comment if you have any idea how to change this behavior.

A few words about my current set up at home.
I've got a computer with a 2.4Ghz AMD processor and tons of disk installed. I think the current total is about 750GB. I've got a supper sweet ViewSonic 21 inch CRT that I borrowed from work, and a ton of other peripherals too. The most important addition is the TV Tunner (Haugepauge TV-250, fyi).
Late last year I picked up a white MacBook, with a 2Ghz Core 2 Duo and a DVD burner. I have since upgraded the internal hard drive to a 160GB drive and last week I upped the memory in it to 2GB.
The MacBook has the latest build of Parallels Desktop with a copy of Windows XP to make sure that I can get work done.
The computer has my own copy of XP installed, as well as MSDN 'evaluation' copies of Windows Media Center and Vista Ultimate.
In the future I'll detail how I've managed to connect everything, and of course I'll keep you posed on my views of Vista.