Quote Originally Posted by RhinoBull View Post
I have never seen any installer from Microsoft that would automatically reboot your pc - there is always a confirmation dialog asking whether or not you wish to reboot it now or later.
Since the introduction of XP (at least) they would use taskbar notification area to notify user of pending tasks.
What OS do you use? Perhaps it's missing many updates or even SP...
7 professional with all updates. I have no idea what it could have needed to update. Based on the updates on the page i was referred to on the failed attempt, they all seemed to be ie9 specific and most were related to displaying graphics, etc.

I suppose it's possible it popped up a dialog box but it wasn't there long enough to be seen. As typing was going on at the time, if a dialog box appears and you are typing and hit the space bar... well, you know the rest.