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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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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Thanks but ummm ... I'm the sole user and Administrator of this machine. It tells me that I am Administrator. There are no other profiles. I have no such path as >Start->Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Administrative Services. The path ends at Administrative Tools. I'm assuming that disabling BITS is also done inside Administrative Services at the end of that path? I've selected "show all hidden" in tools, but obviously I'm missing something here ... an understanding of some XP protocol perhaps? If I'm not Administrator every time I boot up then why am I not offered the option to log on as Adminstrator should the situation require it? Obviously I'm working under the assumption here that I can't see this Administrative Services because the machine doesn't think I'm Administrator? Sorry if this like "XP-101" to you blokes but it doesn't make any sense to me at all.


On Friday, July 1, 2005 at 8:32 pm, Mallee wrote:
>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 :)
>
>
>

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Same problem - finally broke through with sheer perserverance. Advice from another site was to go directly to the updates page for Office 2003 and select SP1. Did this. .......http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9C51D3A6-7CB1-4F61-837E-5F938254FC47&displaylang=en......Selected SP1:...... Office2003SP1-kb842532-fullfile-enu.exe....... It hung up still at about 15Mb. I closed the download window and clicked again on the SP1 link. The download window started back up right where it left off and completed the 74Mb download. Hope this works for you. Tried to solve this alone for about an hour before searching here.


On Saturday, July 2, 2005 at 2:04 am, Mallee wrote:
>Thanks but ummm ... I'm the sole user and Administrator of this machine. It tells
>me that I am Administrator. There are no other profiles. I have no such path as >Start->Control
>Panel->Administrative Tools->Administrative Services. The path ends at Administrative
>Tools. I'm assuming that disabling BITS is also done inside Administrative Services
>at the end of that path? I've selected "show all hidden" in tools, but obviously
>I'm missing something here ... an understanding of some XP protocol perhaps? If I'm
>not Administrator every time I boot up then why am I not offered the option to log
>on as Adminstrator should the situation require it? Obviously I'm working under the
>assumption here that I can't see this Administrative Services because the machine
>doesn't think I'm Administrator? Sorry if this like "XP-101" to you blokes but it
>doesn't make any sense to me at all.
>
>
>

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