What update was released to Windows XP SP3 this week that would take 15 minutes to install?

What update was released to Windows XP SP3 this week that would take 15 minutes to install? I've been very happy with my Windows XP SP3 box, but right now it is shutting down, and has been for 15 minutes, pausing while "Installing update 1 of 1..", this then changes to "Do not turn off or unplug your computer; it will turn off automatically." and then back.
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"It was a hotfix to Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 2.0. These are parts of the ""huge patch"" from last week. So my timeframe was off by a week. These kinds of things can be searched for at the security bulletins pages.

But my real issue was that the patch was so huge it wouldn't install in the little free space I had left (600MB).

Now I really have a reason to slap in the 5 500GB disks I bought last year and never setup because I actually wanted them to run on a solaris machine as a raid-z pool. That ended up not happening, yet."