re: Question about 'Enabling or Disabling Automatic Windows Update'
Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 4:42 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ken Warner
(1 messages posted)
Hi,
I've spent all day on this after I "upgraded" to the slower IE 6 from IE 5. Really
pissed me off...
Two ways to do this...
1) Control Panel -> Automatic Updates -- uncheck
Keep my computer up to date. At top of dialog.
This removes the tray icon.
2) Control Panel -> Administrative tools -> Services --
Highlight Automatic updates and right click on Properties. The Strartup type: Pulldown
has Automatic, Manual, Disabled. I set it to disabled.
If you notice the path to the executible it will be:
C:\WINNT\system32\svchost.exe -k wugroup
All and all, this is pretty slimey on MS's part -- to be expected I guess.
Probably could find it in the Services key somewhere in the registry...
Ken Warner
On Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 7:13 pm, Sandra wrote:
>I am using Windows 2000 Professional Version 5.00.2195 SP 1 and I do not find the
>"Automatic Updates" when using MSConfig.exe and looking in Services or by going
to
>Control Panel ->Services. "Automatic Updates" can not be found in either location.
> Do you have any other ideas on how I could fix this problem?
>-Sandra
>
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