re: READ FOCKERS
Monday, October 2, 2006 at 10:30 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by yolayola
(2 messages posted)
There are two settings and both will work, so it's your choice. Either enable No
auto-restart for schedule Automatic Updates installations or set Re-prompt for restart
with scheduled installations to a long time
1. Stop the "Automatic Updates" service.
Navigate to Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Services:
Right click the Automatic Updates service and stop it. You can also do the same thing
at the command line by typing:
net stop wuauserv
After the service is stopped, the nag message stops, too. Then you can reboot when
you have time. The service will restart when you reboot.
2. Modify Group Policy settings.
Start, Run "gpedit.msc" to bring up the group policy editor. Then navigate to the
folder
Local Computer Policy
Computer Configuration
Administrative Templates
Windows Components
Windows Update
There are two settings and both will work, so it's your choice. Either enable No
auto-restart for schedule Automatic Updates installations or set Re-prompt for restart
with scheduled installations to a long time
1. Stop the "Automatic Updates" service.
Navigate to Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Services:
Right click the Automatic Updates service and stop it. You can also do the same thing
at the command line by typing:
net stop wuauserv
After the service is stopped, the nag message stops, too. Then you can reboot when
you have time. The service will restart when you reboot.
2. Modify Group Policy settings.
Start, Run "gpedit.msc" to bring up the group policy editor. Then navigate to the
folder
Local Computer Policy
Computer Configuration
Administrative Templates
Windows Components
Windows Update
There are two settings and both will work, so it's your choice. Either enable No
auto-restart for schedule Automatic Updates installations or set Re-prompt for restart
with scheduled installations to a long time
1. Stop the "Automatic Updates" service.
Navigate to Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Services:
Right click the Automatic Updates service and stop it. You can also do the same thing
at the command line by typing:
net stop wuauserv
After the service is stopped, the nag message stops, too. Then you can reboot when
you have time. The service will restart when you reboot.
2. Modify Group Policy settings.
Start, Run "gpedit.msc" to bring up the group policy editor. Then navigate to the
folder
Local Computer Policy
Computer Configuration
Administrative Templates
Windows Components
Windows Update
There are two settings and both will work, so it's your choice. Either enable No
auto-restart for schedule Automatic Updates installations or set Re-prompt for restart
with scheduled installations to a long time
1. Stop the "Automatic Updates" service.
Navigate to Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Services:
Right click the Automatic Updates service and stop it. You can also do the same thing
at the command line by typing:
net stop wuauserv
After the service is stopped, the nag message stops, too. Then you can reboot when
you have time. The service will restart when you reboot.
2. Modify Group Policy settings.
Start, Run "gpedit.msc" to bring up the group policy editor. Then navigate to the
folder
Local Computer Policy
Computer Configuration
Administrative Templates
Windows Components
Windows Update
There are two settings and both will work, so it's your choice. Either enable No
auto-restart for schedule Automatic Updates installations or set Re-prompt for restart
with scheduled installations to a long time
1. Stop the "Automatic Updates" service.
Navigate to Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Services:
Right click the Automatic Updates service and stop it. You can also do the same thing
at the command line by typing:
net stop wuauserv
After the service is stopped, the nag message stops, too. Then you can reboot when
you have time. The service will restart when you reboot.
2. Modify Group Policy settings.
Start, Run "gpedit.msc" to bring up the group policy editor. Then navigate to the
folder
Local Computer Policy
Computer Configuration
Administrative Templates
Windows Components
Windows Update
There are two settings and both will work, so it's your choice. Either enable No
auto-restart for schedule Automatic Updates installations or set Re-prompt for restart
with scheduled installations to a long time
On Wednesday, September 13, 2006 at 6:52 pm, Meyer wrote:
>Yes, wuauclt.exe was obviously designed by some sadist at Microsoft; I've had the
>same problems with it refusing to die on my Windows XP box, and when I actually
tried
>sending the files to my Recycle Bin, it popped up that same message to me about
how
>it was going to do something awful to my system stability if I didn't have the files.
>
>I looked up "delete wuaclt.exe" on Google, but the only results it had were a bunch
>of folks saying "Don't delete wuauclt.exe!" with no indication of just what exactly
>it would do to my system if I did. I've backed up most of my essential stuff, but
>I just didn't want to take the chance of having my XP box refuse to boot altogether
>or whatever, so I restored all of those files except for the prefetch (.pf) one.
>(I've never had anything bad happen to my computer for destroying prefetch files.)
>
>Since I was also trying to get rid of alg.exe (another file which refused to stop
>running itself without my permission), I have discovered something that it might
>interest everyone here to know: apparently, stopping wuauclt.exe from running on
>your system requires that you stop alg.exe from running as well. The services manager
>in msconfig.exe, alas, doesn't actually mention which of "services" listed on there
>come from these files. I had to look them both up on the net.
>
>That's the solution, in a nutshell: to keep wuauclt.exe from running, you've got
>to disable alg.exe as well. Unless you need "support for 3rd party protocol plug-ins
>for Internet Connection Sharing and the Windows Firewall" for some reason, you can
>do this by disabling it in msconfig.exe or the "Services" manager program in Administrative
>Tools. Its full name there is "Application Layer Gateway Service" and if it's still
>running, wuauclt.exe will run itself on your system even with the "Automatic Updates"
>startup disabled.
>
>Msconfig.exe will even tell you that this is the case: you'll see the box unchecked
>next to "Automatic Updates" in the services tab, and next to that, in the "status"
>column, it'll say "running" even though it's supposed to be disabled. That's just
>one more sight you never want to see that reminds you someone at Microsoft thinks
>his program deserves to have more control over your computer than you have.
>
>Bottom line:
>Disable alg.exe (Application Layer Gateway Service)
>Disable wuauclt.exe (Automatic Updates)
>
>Only then will they both go away and stop hijacking your computer, unless they're
>really viruses or trojans or something. It's not hard to see where blackhats get
>their ideas for introducing viruses and trojans to Windows systems when some of
Microsoft's
>own "service" programs are virtually indistinguishable from viruses in their behavior.
- Written in response to:
- re: cannot disable auto update (Meyer: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 at 6:52 pm)
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