Is Microsoft Going Crazy?

Usually, I choose Automatic Updates set for 3:00AM daily. So the update event is time driven rather than event driven. This get around your first problem.

You only want to schedule critical updates. These are the ones that aim to fix security problems. You probably don't need twenty different language patches if the users are only using one language.

A service pack may be cumlulative, but these incremental ones that come every other day are going to keep hogging up space (either in memory or on the hard-drive). You can't really delete them.

Each one has a Knowledge Base article associated with it. Read the article and decide if you may want to skip it (i.e. The patch is aimed at addressing a problem that does not apply to your specific case).

Good luck, you (all of us) need it when dealing with this OS!

Thank you Guest.

I'll likely be upgrading my CADD Lap top to Version 7 and will purge those updates before then as they will be irrelevant.

As for the other PC's: I'm hoping that with each download of MS garbage that a date stamp has been visited to the OS, that I can back up to. Then I can delete the offending intruders subsequent to that, reconfigure the update protocol as you so wisely suggested and "happily ever after in Gates-ville, USA"

Thanks again, you've made a difference.

L.J.

Go to run, type services.msc enter find windows update and disable/stop it ...

BWire wrote: "Go to run, type services.msc enter find windows update and disable/stop it"

I did just that. However, the moment I got into that page, I saw all the reasons why my limited memory is being cut down and the system running poorly. Too many needless programs running. I've always known that (Task Manager displayed too but didn't show how to stop them.)

Now I do.

For Example: "Remote Registry Access"

"Enables remote users to modify registry settings on this computer. If this service is stopped, the registry can be modified only by users on this computer. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start."

With the automatic upgrades from MS stopped (thanks to you), there is no need to occup space in memory with this command. Should the need arise, I can re-activate this one and a few others. Guests suggestion to be more selective and allows for critical downloads and I have to allow for the possibility that this more absolute block could prevent my getting really important upgrades.

I will likely go back to what Guest suggested but after I have had a chance to address the clutter MS has created.

Thanks! Both of you!

L.J.

All is well that ends well.

My intention was to help in a way to cause convenience for a short time as you had described upgrading the O/S shortly. I wouldn't advise except in the following method.

Selecting critical updates only is best but disabling updates in services.msc with the understanding that crucial updates come the 2nd Tues. of each month can be helpful for those whom pay attention to their calender. Certain users find it beneficial to disable updates in the manner described preventing interruption of processes on going. Then to pay strict attention to re-enable in services at the critical update release time each month and run the updated malicious software at that time also; it's a given that MS should know if their script is running.

Download Si-SoftSandra Lite a free system critique program, with it you can establish which processes are safe to stop.

Keep in mind that "vunerabilities" is mostly "doors" Billy left for himself and gov authorities and just when some hacker finds them and starts exploiting them then it's time to close them and open some others. Wake up people!