re: cannot disable auto update
Saturday, August 14, 2004 at 3:08 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by jabuck
(2274 messages posted)
gomer, It may be a virus. Read this from Sophos
Antivirus and be sure to click description and recovery.If your av is
not up-to-date you can get a free online scan at Housecall
and you should be able to disable it in the registry as suggested by Sophos. ---jabuck
On Saturday, August 14, 2004 at 1:05 pm, gomer wrote:
>Ok, this is a new one for me. I just did a fresh install of ME and I ran the updater,
>installed everything MS had.
>Now, the auto-update process - wuaclt.exe - starts itself continuously and displays
>a pop-up from the system tray to remind me to update. I go to settings and select
>"Turn off automatic updating. I will update my computer manually" and auto-update
>closes and is gone from the tray. A few seconds later, it's back and popping up
the
>reminder again. The settings are back to "automatically download updates yada yada"
>again.
>
>I have scoured the registry and cannot figure how this thing is even getting launched.
>If I just ctl-alt-del and kill the process, it comes right back. I've had less annoying
>virii.
>
>I'm about to just delete the relevant files from the widows directory & see what
>that does. Anybody else see this before?
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