BBran said:
That is not what I am interested in, just what I asked. Hopefully these
responses will not preclude a practical response.
That you aren't interested in what your employer wants to do regarding
their property is not an excuse to do whatever you want. It isn't your
property. Software pirates don't care about licenses or property
rights, either. Burglars don't care about your rights to your property.
So leave your doors unlocked, give use your street address, and we'll be
over to do whatever we want with your computer.
If the computer is in a corporate networked environment, the company or
gov't should be using their own SMS (Systems Mgmt Services) server to
push updates if they want control over their own property. You should
not be retrieving unauthorized updates or even querying Microsoft's
public Windows Update site. If you don't have permission to be deciding
what web browser you use on their property then you also don't have
permission to be disabling their setup, refusing updates pushed by their
SMS server, or even in editing the registry (unless they've put you into
their Administrators group for that host in their domain because your
work requires that level of access but still you are not allowed to
violate their pushed policies without permission - and if you get
permission be sure to record that you got it).
You never specified what were the registry edits that you performed to
supposedly block updates to Windows. Just saying you did registry edits
means nothing so there was no point in even mentioning it. Why do you
even need to do registry edits? If you have permissions under your
login to edit the registry then you also have permissions to change the
Windows Update configuration on your host. Switch it to off or just to
notify.
Since Windows Update maintains a catalog on your host of what updates
have been applied, rejected, and failed, why not simply specify that you
don't want to be notified of a particular update. When you perform a
custom update (no one should be using the express update), each item
that is in the list has an option to no longer show that offering. Just
click on the + next to the description to expand it and select to never
show it again.
Why did you even need to do any registry editing? Just disable the AU
(Automatic Updates) service. If and whenever you want to do Windows
Updates again, reenable the Automatic Updates service. However, leaving
the AU service enabled and running is drastic versus just turning off
the Windows Update function which is more drastic than just selecting to
never show a particular update again.
