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re: Question about 'Enabling or Disabling Automatic Windows Update'
Friday, July 1, 2005 at 8:32 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Mallee
(2 messages posted)
Since moving to windows xp service pack 2, I've been unable to make all of the critical
downloads. Some of them downloaded and installed ok, but now everything I try to
download from windows update, whether critical or optional, and whether manually
or automagically, simply hangs at 63% and will go no further. Additionally other
web-updates i've tried to do such as to install sun-java or even to update malware
definitions in a-squared for example, simply will not begin at all, or else return
server failure errors, while others such as ad-aware and spybot s&d have no problems
updating. On top of this my download manager (download express, which I never had
any trouble with in windows ME), is having a really hard time getting anything at
all downloaded. It seems to be battling 'something' - forever stopping and starting
and revising the estimated time till download completed. Windows firewall is disabled
as I run sygate personal firewall and have made the necessary exceptions re windows
updates as recommended on microsoft support pages. Windows auto-updates is also now
disabled as it just kept gobbling up my dial-up bandwidth, only to get to 63% and
then just hang every day. Would appreciate any ideas on what might be causing this
sort of problem as every search I've tried on microsoft support pages turns up blank
(as did a search of this forum, so I guess it's not a common problem). PS. xp sp-2
was a raw slipstream install inclusive of both sp's, and apart from this one problem,
everything else seems to be fine. thanks for your thoughts :)
On Saturday, June 4, 2005 at 8:16 pm, Richard L. Reed wrote:
>Regarding Windows XP automatic updates:
>
>You can disable this in a two-step process.
>
>Start->Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Administrative Services. Right-click
>on "Automatic Updates," and then click on "Properties." Select "Disabled," and close
>the window. Then locate "BITS," or "Background Intelligent Transfer Service," and
>disable that as well. This will stop Windows from phoning home and abusing your
precious
>memory to do it.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Rick
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