|>
[email protected] wrote:
|>>
|>> |>Good Lord!
|>> |>
|>> |>I have turned off Windows Update but the damn thing keeps trying to
|>> |>connect. I've monitored it with Kerio PF & Ethereal and it keeps yakking
|>> |>with some POS windows update site or three. I'm on dialup so bandwidth
|>> |>consumption is a major concern to me.
|>>
|>>
|>> Start | Run <type in> services.msc <enter>
|>> stop, then disable Automatic Updates
|>
|>Thanks for that PW. Did it. Didn't make any difference even after a restart.
One more thing is to view your taskmanager and see if a process name'd
wuauclt.exe is running if so kill the process and rename the file...
http://www.processid.com/wuauclt.exe.html
If even that doesn't work put: au.download.windowsupdate.com in your
HOSTS file. you'll never connect then.
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
|>Here's a 2 minute capture record from Ethereal after a restart and
|>dialing up (edited out some gobble-T-gook):
|>
|>GET
|>/msdownload/update/v5/psf/windowsxp-kb908531-v2-x86-enu_cb388b8f8a259e6d11aa55fa8524d21c7b4d6a70.psf
|>HTTP/1.1
|>Accept: */*
|>Accept-Encoding: identity
|>Range: bytes=3641278-3645264
|>User-Agent: Microsoft BITS/6.6
|>Host: au.download.windowsupdate.com
|>Connection: Keep-Alive
|>
|>GET
|>/msdownload/update/v5/psf/windowsxp-kb908531-v2-x86-enu_cb388b8f8a259e6d11aa55fa8524d21c7b4d6a70.psf
|>HTTP/1.1
|>Accept: */*
|>Accept-Encoding: identity
|>Range: bytes=3641278-3645264
|>User-Agent: Microsoft BITS/6.6
|>Host: au.download.windowsupdate.com
|>Connection: Keep-Alive
|>
|>GET
|>/msdownload/update/v5/psf/windowsxp-kb908531-v2-x86-enu_cb388b8f8a259e6d11aa55fa8524d21c7b4d6a70.psf
|>HTTP/1.1
|>Accept: */*
|>Accept-Encoding: identity
|>Range: bytes=3641278-3645264
|>User-Agent: Microsoft BITS/6.6
|>Host: au.download.windowsupdate.com
|>Connection: Keep-Alive
|>
|>GET
|>/msdownload/update/v5/psf/windowsxp-kb908531-v2-x86-enu_cb388b8f8a259e6d11aa55fa8524d21c7b4d6a70.psf
|>HTTP/1.1
|>Accept: */*
|>Accept-Encoding: identity
|>Range: bytes=3641278-3645264
|>User-Agent: Microsoft BITS/6.6
|>Host: au.download.windowsupdate.com
|>Connection: Keep-Alive
|>
|>GET
|>/msdownload/update/v5/psf/windowsxp-kb908531-v2-x86-enu_cb388b8f8a259e6d11aa55fa8524d21c7b4d6a70.psf
|>HTTP/1.1
|>Accept: */*
|>Accept-Encoding: identity
|>Range: bytes=3641278-3645264
|>User-Agent: Microsoft BITS/6.6
|>Host: au.download.windowsupdate.com
|>Connection: Keep-Alive
|>
|>GET
|>/msdownload/update/v5/psf/windowsxp-kb908531-v2-x86-enu_cb388b8f8a259e6d11aa55fa8524d21c7b4d6a70.psf
|>HTTP/1.1
|>Accept: */*
|>Accept-Encoding: identity
|>Range: bytes=3641278-3645264
|>User-Agent: Microsoft BITS/6.6
|>Host: au.download.windowsupdate.com
|>Connection: Keep-Alive
|>
|>I don't want it to "Keep-Alive", I want it to "Keep-Dead"!
|>I Don't need MS to try and patch my OS unless I say it's ok. Period.
|>
|>Yes, I looked up kb908531. I don't need or want it. My dialup connection
|>is constantly busy with this horsecrap going on.
|>
|>Steve N.
