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re: Question about 'Enabling or Disabling Automatic Windows Update'
Saturday, August 8, 2009 at 5:45 pm
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Posted by bob wells (1636 messages posted)


Close the Web Page and reboot immediately. If the Page refuses to close use the START 
button to shutdown the Computer. If all else fails, hold the POWER Button in till 
it shuts down. 

Yeah, chkdsk will run on reboot, that's a good thing. Let it run. You'll only loose 
unsaved data.WUP is not so special that you need to go the extremes.

It's probably hung up anyway if you cannot Cancel the Download.

BW






On Saturday, August 8, 2009 at 4:06 pm, jed wrote:
>Never mind enable/disable. How do I cancel it? I'm on essentially a dialup, albeit
>mobile technology, connection and it is slow enough. I want to do some other work
>and the download of the update is hogging transmission resources. How do I cancel
>it?



Written in response to:
Question about 'Enabling or Disabling Automatic Windows Update' (jed: Saturday, August 8, 2009 at 4:06 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Question about 'Enabling or Disabling Automatic Windows Update' (jed: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 12:14 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Question about 'Enabling or Disabling Automatic Windows Update' (jed: Sat, Aug 8, 2009, 4:06 pm)
*re: Question about 'Enabling or Disabling Automatic Windows Update' (Steve: Sat, Aug 8, 2009, 4:38 pm)
-re: Question about 'Enabling or Disabling Automatic Windows Update' (bob wells: Sat, Aug 8, 2009, 5:45 pm)
*re: Question about 'Enabling or Disabling Automatic Windows Update' (jed: Tue, Aug 11, 2009, 12:14 am)
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