Stop updating...

[Jon Smith]

I installed messenger 5 on my network and don't want it to update itself
when new ver comes out... I put in the regkey

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MessengerService]
"Upgrade"=hex:01,00,00,00

on all the clents but they still seam to be updateing... I installed
5.0.0468 and now a lot of them are 5.0.0482 is there another key that needs
to be set?

thanks

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings Jon,

The key you added actually hasn't been used since Messenger 3.x. The proper keys to stop
this behavior now are:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MessengerService\Policies]
"DisableUpdates"=dword:00000001
"PreventAutoUpdate"=dword:00000001
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2004 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.

 

[Jon Smith]

thanks

Greetings Jon,

The key you added actually hasn't been used since Messenger 3.x. The proper keys to stop
this behavior now are:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MessengerService\Policies]
"DisableUpdates"=dword:00000001
"PreventAutoUpdate"=dword:00000001
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2004 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.

I installed messenger 5 on my network and don't want it to update itself
when new ver comes out... I put in the regkey

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MessengerService]
"Upgrade"=hex:01,00,00,00

on all the clents but they still seam to be updateing... I installed
5.0.0468 and now a lot of them are 5.0.0482 is there another key that needs
to be set?

thanks

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Hi Jon,

Not a problem =)
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2004 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.

thanks

Greetings Jon,

The key you added actually hasn't been used since Messenger 3.x. The proper keys to stop
this behavior now are:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MessengerService\Policies]
"DisableUpdates"=dword:00000001
"PreventAutoUpdate"=dword:00000001
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2004 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.

I installed messenger 5 on my network and don't want it to update itself
when new ver comes out... I put in the regkey

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MessengerService]
"Upgrade"=hex:01,00,00,00

on all the clents but they still seam to be updateing... I installed
5.0.0468 and now a lot of them are 5.0.0482 is there another key that needs
to be set?

thanks