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re: cannot disable auto update
Sunday, August 22, 2004 at 1:33 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by SenorDD
(1 messages posted)
I was just having the same problem. I'm not sure how I fixed it, but somehow I managed
to get it to stop. What's happening is that it's stuck in a loop trying to download
an update that may or may not already be installed. Try doing the following, I think
this is how I got it to stop. Kill all instances of wuaclt.exe that are running,
there may be more than one. Go into the control panel and disable the auto update
before the computer is able to try and reopen it. Wait a few minutes to make sure
it doesn't come back and then reboot. If it doesn't start itself up again a few
minutes after rebooting, then I think you are safe. It should now be safe to re enable
the auto update if you wish. I had a msg asking me if I wanted to instal SP2 or
not. I chose not to, I think that's what it was trying to download when it wouldn't
close.
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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