System Loses Updates After ReBoot

I am at a loss as to why this is happening, & it may be some thing very simple for all I know. But everytime I shut down then bring my Windows 2000 Pro back up, my AVG Free and Windows and spyware programs' updates are lost and have to be updated again.

Any way I can unearth the reason for this PITA?

Thanks!

 

Sounds like you would have 'last known good login' turned permanently on, but that's only thing I can think of. Probably not the thing.. check your 'boot.ini' on your system drive root. where should be something like this by default:

[boot loader]
;timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

 

Ouch. That looks scary!...Well Ill take a peek & see. If it doesn't look like that, should I change it so that it does? And it couldn't mess me up so I can't boot up, would it?

*with tentative finger poised*

 

nah, just make sure there ain't more parameters in this line:

"multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect"

than what you see here.. '/noexecute=optin /fastdetect'...

As I said this was just a though what might be wrong.. The thing is if your windows does somekind of restore or rollback in every boot. it would be that kinda result you see there now. I can't really figure anything else which would change system and software to backwards other than that. Migth also be good to keep in mind there is 3rd party softwares (virus protections usually) which stores the system start up information in some container and those softwares has self-defense mechanism which could copy back the files before updates just to defend the system. So check also your AVG is there such thing.

[edit]

Hmmz.. forgot to mention about that self-defence mechanism.. so spyware softwares has also same style protection so any installed or has been installed might of cause integrated defense meaning check your spyware software also. 'Windows File-system protection' is usually on, but if there's anything specific restrictions or copy preventing checked. Those might be that cause.