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re: cannot disable auto update
Tuesday, October 10, 2006 at 8:59 am
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Posted by nikki (1 messages posted)


try goping into services from the admin tools and stopping it and disabling to auto updates there...should work.


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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cannot disable auto update (gomer: Saturday, August 14, 2004 at 1:05 pm)

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-cannot disable auto update (gomer: Sat, Aug 14, 2004, 1:05 pm)
-re: cannot disable auto update (Donna R: Sat, Aug 14, 2004, 1:43 pm)
-re: cannot disable auto update (gomer: Sat, Aug 14, 2004, 7:13 pm)
-re: cannot disable auto update (Joseph: Sat, Jun 3, 2006, 5:12 pm)
-re: cannot disable auto update (Meyer: Wed, Sep 13, 2006, 6:52 pm)
*re: READ FOCKERS (yolayola: Mon, Oct 2, 2006, 10:30 pm)
-re: cannot disable auto update (jabuck: Sat, Aug 14, 2004, 3:08 pm)
*re: cannot disable auto update (gomer: Sat, Aug 14, 2004, 7:15 pm)
-re: cannot disable auto update (Ms. Eagle: Sat, Aug 14, 2004, 3:46 pm)
-re: cannot disable auto update (gomer: Sat, Aug 14, 2004, 7:20 pm)
-re: cannot disable auto update (Ms. Eagle: Sat, Aug 14, 2004, 7:46 pm)
-re: cannot disable auto update (gomer: Sat, Aug 14, 2004, 8:16 pm)
*re: cannot disable auto update (Ms. Eagle: Sat, Aug 14, 2004, 8:25 pm)
*re: cannot disable auto update (Jack Gulley: Sun, Aug 15, 2004, 8:31 am)
-re: cannot disable auto update (Donna R: Sat, Aug 14, 2004, 7:24 pm)
*re: cannot disable auto update (Ms. Eagle: Sat, Aug 14, 2004, 7:57 pm)
-re: cannot disable auto update (SenorDD: Sun, Aug 22, 2004, 1:33 am)
-re: cannot disable auto update (plume: Wed, Dec 15, 2004, 1:15 am)
-re: cannot disable auto update (Wanda: Mon, Jan 17, 2005, 9:17 am)
-re: cannot disable auto update (brian: Wed, Jan 19, 2005, 1:30 pm)
*re: cannot disable auto update (Mike: Mon, Apr 18, 2005, 11:43 pm)
*re: cannot disable auto update (nikki: Tue, Oct 10, 2006, 8:59 am)
*re: cannot disable auto update (alex: Mon, Jul 16, 2007, 4:47 pm)
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