Disabling Automatic Updates?

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I would like to disable Automatic Updates but this panel is set to do the
updates automatically, the recommended option, and the whole panel is greyed
out so that I can't change the setting. I'm running XP with SP1. (I plan to
install SP2 very soon now, this weekend if possible, so please don't give me
a lecture about that.)

How can I "un-grey" the Automatic Updates panel so that I can turn Automatic
Updates off?
 
By setting Service Start modes for Automatic Updates to Disabled &
Background Intelligent Transfer to Manual.
Click Start, Run (Type) Services.Msc [Enter]
Right Click the Appropriate Entries & change Startup mode - Reboot
 
Rhino said:
I would like to disable Automatic Updates but this panel is set to do the
updates automatically, the recommended option, and the whole panel is greyed
out so that I can't change the setting. I'm running XP with SP1. (I plan to
install SP2 very soon now, this weekend if possible, so please don't give me
a lecture about that.)

How can I "un-grey" the Automatic Updates panel so that I can turn Automatic
Updates off?
Click to expand...
This page has some useful info that might help
http://www.amset.info/windows/auto-updates.asp

Best of luck :)
 
Rhino said:
I would like to disable Automatic Updates but this panel is set to do the
updates automatically, the recommended option, and the whole panel is greyed
out so that I can't change the setting. I'm running XP with SP1. (I plan to
install SP2 very soon now, this weekend if possible, so please don't give me
a lecture about that.)

How can I "un-grey" the Automatic Updates panel so that I can turn Automatic
Updates off?
Click to expand...
Why?
 
Just my luck; I'd found the Automatic Updates service by poking around and
disabled it but I didn't know about the Background Intelligent Transfer
service. (By the way, I can't set it to Manual so I stopped it.)

How do I "change Startup mode"? I thought that might be shorthand for "turn
Automatic Updates 'off'" but I can't do that yet; everything is still greyed
out, even with the two services stopped.

Rhino

R. McCarty said:
By setting Service Start modes for Automatic Updates to Disabled &
Background Intelligent Transfer to Manual.
Click Start, Run (Type) Services.Msc [Enter]
Right Click the Appropriate Entries & change Startup mode - Reboot
Click to expand...
 
Rick said:
Why?
Click to expand...

Basically, because other people have told me to do so. Apparently, Automatic
Updates are buggy or flaky or have "known problems", depending on who you
talk to, and it is a better idea to do the updates manually every second
Tuesday of the month, which is when they come out.

Rhino
 
I took your advice and tried the things suggested in the website with these
notable events:
- only the first of the two HIKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE keys (AUOptions) existed and
I deleted it
- there was no ...\WindowsUpdate key under HIKEY_CURRENT_USER
- there was no ...WindowsUpdate option in the Computer Configuration area of
the Group Policy

I did the other things that were suggested and saved the Group Policy SnapIn
before rebooting.

After rebooting, I still can't change my Automatic Updates setting because
the whole tab is still greyed out.

Rhino
 
Prolly not but YMMV. (I was thinking that NIS's or MIS's Script Blocker
might be interfering.)
 
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