sp2 auto install

[Guest]

My computer has automatically downloaded XP2. Every time I start the computer
I am asked if I want to install it. NO I don’t at this time.
It would have been great if MS would have put in an option for various
postponement notifications, such as 1, 5, 10, … etc, days into the future.
Does anyone know how to delete, or temporarily suspend, this annoying
persistent self installation attempt?
I don’t want to stop all updates; but I am not ready for XP2 yet.
Thanks,
Tom

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

My computer has automatically downloaded XP2. Every time I start the computer
I am asked if I want to install it. NO I don’t at this time.
It would have been great if MS would have put in an option for various
postponement notifications, such as 1, 5, 10, … etc, days into the future.
Does anyone know how to delete, or temporarily suspend, this annoying
persistent self installation attempt?
I don’t want to stop all updates; but I am not ready for XP2 yet.
Thanks,
Tom

Hi

To avoid that Windows Updates/Automatic Updates tries to install
SP2 at all (up to 12. April 2005):

Toolkit to Temporarily Block Delivery of Windows XP SP2 to a PC
Through Automatic Updates and Windows Update
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...BA-EA5D-4425-89C1-C1CB1CCD463C&displaylang=en

Run the XPSP2BlockerTools.exe in the link above. It will extract
several files to the folder you specify.

Then run XPSP2Blocker.exe to activate the blockage (it will create
the registry value described in the link above).

If SP2 have started to download (or are ready to install), and you
want to get rid of the files without installing SP2, clean out the
Download folder (WU5's temporary download folder) located here:

%windir%\SoftwareDistribution\

(%windir% is typically C:\Windows)


This will not block you from installing SP2 from e.g. the SP2 CD
later on...


To remove the pending download you now have, clean out the
Download folder (WU5's temporary download folder) located here:

%windir%\SoftwareDistribution\

(%windir% is typically C:\Windows)

You can use the procedure described here:

http://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/v5consumer/showarticle.aspx?articleid=11&ln=en

You might need to delete the DataStore folder mentioned in the link
above, as well as the Download folder.