I have a question about Enabling or Disabling Automatic Windows Update:

As of 2005 Aug 10 I have lost the ability to disable Automatic Update in Windows XP Prof SP1. Automatic is now "ON", and all four control options are greyed out. This happened following installation of the first (installed in the morning of 2005 Aug 10) of the 8 updates released 2005 Aug 10. Mid afternoon, the remaining 7, which I had not selected for download or install, installed themselves, and I could not interrupt the process. How do I regain control of updates ? Mike

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Can you uninstall the updates via add/remove making sure "show windows update" is checked?


On Thursday, August 11, 2005 at 3:31 am, Michael Beveridge wrote:
>I have a question about Enabling
>or Disabling Automatic Windows Update:

>
>As of 2005 Aug 10 I have lost the ability to disable Automatic Update in Windows
>XP Prof SP1. Automatic is now "ON", and all four control options are greyed out.
> This happened following installation of the first (installed in the morning of 2005
>Aug 10) of the 8 updates released 2005 Aug 10. Mid afternoon, the remaining 7, which
>I had not selected for download or install, installed themselves, and I could not
>interrupt the process. How do I regain control of updates ? Mike
>
>

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Have you checked whether the" Automatic Updates" Service is disabled or not?  

Start - Run - type Services.msc, or go into Control Panel - Administrative 
Tools - Services. Double click Auto updates, under Startup type - use the downpointing 
arrow and select Disable, then Apply. 

Note: You need to go back and set it to Auto, whenever you check for updates again. 
You can uninstall any updates you don't want, or those that don't apply to your situation, 
btw.




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