IMHO Vista and later OSs have used multiple restarts in order to provide
better protection against interruptions such as power failures during the
installation/upgrade so that they could recover easily from such problems.
I was pleased to see them provide this additional protection.
"Viktor Kvapil" <viktor,kvapil@xxxxxx,hvb-cee,com> wrote in message
news:B130DA9E-0F8D-4D64-B076-36AFF9D2FC1E@xxxxxx
> Hi Everyone did anyone manage to find background information about
> processes
> running during every stage of the vista servicepack installation? I mean
> Win
> 200,XP,2003 was able to do everything on one restart, why is necessary to
> have 3 stages in Win Vista and Serv 2008
> --
> Viktor Kvapil
> IT servers system group