Can one suppress specific update notifications?

[Michael Moser]

Occasionally M$ tries to push certain updates down us customers' throats
by marking them as "Important", even though they are as useful as a hole
in the head.

Under Windows XP as far as I recall one was able to mark these as "Don't
show me again" and then they wouldn't appear any more.
In Vista I am currently every noon pestered by a ballon trying to tell
me that I need to install an update whose purpose is to "Allow Vista to
detect programs that bypass product activation..." ||-( .

Would it have come as part of one of those "patch tuesday's" collections
and reasonably labeled I would not have any problem installing it. But
distributing this as the only update and then even labeling this as
"important" I consider an ignorant abuse of customers' time and
attention!

How can one tell Vista somehow to suppress showing and stop pestering me
with such rubbish?

Michael

 

[Jeff Smith [MSFT]]

You can bury any available update by opening the Windows Update panel,
clicking 'View available updates', right-clicking on the offending update,
and selecting 'Hide update'. It won't be offered again.