stopping dpupdchk.exe

[news.microsoft.com]

I found the below information to stop dpupdchk.exe from running and eating
up 3 to 5 MBs of RAM but it doesn't apply to my version of Vista Home
Premium since there is no Local Security Policy or Software Security
Policies under Administrative Tools. How do I stop this from running?

To prevent this task from running you will actually need the assistance of
Windows itself, as follows :

a) Open Local Security Policy in Administrative Tools in the Control Panel.
b) Look for Software Security Policies.
c) Right-click Additional Rules.
d) Choose New Path Rule.
e) Click BROWSE and choose C:\Program Files\Microsoft IntelliType
Pro\dpupdchk.exe.
f) Set the Security Level to Disallowed.
g) Click OK.
h) Close "Local Security Policy".
i) Reboot your PC.
j) You're done.

 

[Gordon]

I found the below information to stop dpupdchk.exe from running and eating
up 3 to 5 MBs of RAM

If you really are so concerned by the loss of up to 5 MB RAM, then you
really haven't got enough.

 

[news.microsoft.com]

If you really are so concerned by the loss of up to 5 MB RAM, then you
really haven't got enough.

Why not just answer the question instead of making useless comments?

 

[Mr. Arnold]

Why not just answer the question instead of making useless comments?

Do you know where dpupdchk.exe is located? If you do, then go to the file
using Explore to access the exe and go to the Security tab, and for every
user account that can access the exe, you'll set the permissions on each
account to DENY READ & EXECUTE, so that no account can run the program, of
course you have to right-click the file and then use Properties with
Explore.

If you can't see the Security tab, then go to Control Panel/Folder
Options/View tab/ and disable Simple File Sharing that exposes the Security
tab.

 

[Peter Foldes]

You did not nave a question. You had an answer that you posted to the question.
Gordon's reply was appropriate because it sure sounded like you were disturbed by losing that minimal amount of RAM

 

[news.microsoft.com]

Do you know where dpupdchk.exe is located? If you do, then go to the file
using Explore to access the exe and go to the Security tab, and for every
user account that can access the exe, you'll set the permissions on each
account to DENY READ & EXECUTE, so that no account can run the program, of
course you have to right-click the file and then use Properties with
Explore.

User accounts is turned off since I'm the only user. There is nothing, no
box to check where "Deny Read & Execute is." How do I turn it off in this
case when I can't click/check anything there?

If you can't see the Security tab, then go to Control Panel/Folder
Options/View tab/ and disable Simple File Sharing that exposes the
Security tab.

The security tab is there but I can't check anything since there are no
check boxes and the checks are grayed out under "allow."

 

[news.microsoft.com]

Try reading it again:

I found the below information to stop dpupdchk.exe from running and eating
up 3 to 5 MBs of RAM but it doesn't apply to my version of Vista Home
Premium since there is no Local Security Policy or Software Security
Policies under Administrative Tools. *How do I stop this from running?*

NOTE: *How do I stop this from running?*

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You did not nave a question. You had an answer that you posted to the
question.
Gordon's reply was appropriate because it sure sounded like you were
disturbed by losing that minimal amount of RAM

 

[Paul Montgomery]

User accounts is turned off since I'm the only user. There is nothing, no
box to check where "Deny Read & Execute is." How do I turn it off in this
case when I can't click/check anything there?

Stop worrying about it. It doesn't even use as much as you claim
anyway. On my system it uses a whopping 792k.

 

[Peter Foldes]

The below is from you and your post. Tell me different

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To prevent this task from running you will actually need the assistance of
Windows itself, as follows :

a) Open Local Security Policy in Administrative Tools in the Control Panel.
b) Look for Software Security Policies.
c) Right-click Additional Rules.
d) Choose New Path Rule.
e) Click BROWSE and choose C:\Program Files\Microsoft IntelliType
Pro\dpupdchk.exe.
f) Set the Security Level to Disallowed.
g) Click OK.
h) Close "Local Security Policy".
i) Reboot your PC.
j) You're done.

 

[Mr. Arnold]

User accounts is turned off since I'm the only user. There is nothing, no
box to check where "Deny Read & Execute is." How do I turn it off in this
case when I can't click/check anything there?

No, NTFS is not turned off. Do you know what NTFS is about? If you don't
know what it's about, then use Google and look it up.

You use the Edit button to edit an account's permissions.

The security tab is there but I can't check anything since there are no
check boxes and the checks are grayed out under "allow."

use the Edit button

 

[news.microsoft.com]

No, NTFS is not turned off. Do you know what NTFS is about? If you don't
know what it's about, then use Google and look it up.

Google gave me this: "NTFS supersedes the FAT file system as the preferred
file system for Microsoft's "Windows"-branded operating systems." I didn't
say NTFS was turned off. I said I have no "user accounts" on this PC. It's
unchecked but I got it done. I don't want all kinds of stuff on this PC
eating up RAM.
Thanks..............................

 

[Mr. Arnold]

Google gave me this: "NTFS supersedes the FAT file system as the
preferred file system for Microsoft's "Windows"-branded operating
systems." I didn't say NTFS was turned off. I said I have no "user
accounts" on this PC.

Sorry, you are wrong. You mentioned that you don't have to logon to your
machine when you boot it. You stated this in another post I believe.

Someone did what is in the link for you in the initial setup of the system.
I think your problem is that you can't determine what that user account is
by name, because you don't see it as you boot the machine, and Vista uses
that account to login automatically.

http://www.onetipaday.com/2007/05/27/how-to-auto-logon-to-a-user-account-at-startup-with-vista/

If NTFS is in play, then at the very least, a user-id must be given with no
password to NTFS so that it can be used to login to the system. An user
account is being used. The user account is given permissions by NTFS (NT
File System) to access folders, files and the registry by user account
permissions.

You need to go to Control Panel/Admin Tools/Computer Management/Users and
find out what is the lone or other user accounts that are on that machine.

The user account that you must be using when Vista auto logs-on is part of
the Administrtors group, otherwise, if it was not a part of the
Administrators group, you would be stopped from doing a whole lot of things.

And if you go back to the Secuirty tab, you will see that
Administrators(machine-name)administrators is a group that is on all folders
and files.

 

[news.microsoft.com]

Sorry, you are wrong. You mentioned that you don't have to logon to your
machine when you boot it. You stated this in another post I believe.

Yes. How is that turning off NTFS?

Someone did what is in the link for you in the initial setup of the
system. I think your problem is that you can't determine what that user
account is by name, because you don't see it as you boot the machine, and
Vista uses that account to login automatically.

-->I'm sure that's what happens.

http://www.onetipaday.com/2007/05/27/how-to-auto-logon-to-a-user-account-at-startup-with-vista/

From the site above:
Click on the Start button and type in 'netplwiz'. This will open the
Advanced User Accounts menu
In the Users tab, highlight the account you want to login to Vista
automatically with, and then 'must enter a username and password to use this
computer'
Click on 'Apply'.
A new window will now popup asking you to enter the password of the account
you've just highlighted. Do this, and then click 'Ok'
Click 'Ok' on the Advanced User Accounts menu to finish...........

--> There is no password for the Administrators account on this PC. I
can't put one there because there isn't one. Why all this confusion that
those of us who are not geeks have to suffer through? Why on a HOME
machine? All I want it total control of my own PC.

If NTFS is in play, then at the very least, a user-id must be given with
no password to NTFS so that it can be used to login to the system. An user
account is being used. The user account is given permissions by NTFS (NT
File System) to access folders, files and the registry by user account
permissions.

Great! How do I get rid of all this UC aggravation and gain total control of
this PC?

You need to go to Control Panel/Admin Tools/Computer Management/Users and
find out what is the lone or other user accounts that are on that machine.

There are no "USERS" listed under "Control Panel/Admin Tools/Computer
Management/" in my version of Vista Home Premium.

The user account that you must be using when Vista auto logs-on is part of
the Administrtors group, otherwise, if it was not a part of the
Administrators group, you would be stopped from doing a whole lot of
things.

And if you go back to the Secuirty tab, you will see that
Administrators(machine-name)administrators is a group that is on all
folders and files.

Which "security tab" are you talking about? On which window?

 

[Mr. Arnold]

Yes. How is that turning off NTFS?

You cannot turn off NTFS, period. NTFS is a major part of folder, file and
registry secuirty, and permmions from NTFS is granted by user account.

-->I'm sure that's what happens.


From the site above:
Click on the Start button and type in 'netplwiz'. This will open the
Advanced User Accounts menu
In the Users tab, highlight the account you want to login to Vista
automatically with, and then 'must enter a username and password to use
this computer'
Click on 'Apply'.
A new window will now popup asking you to enter the password of the
account you've just highlighted. Do this, and then click 'Ok'
Click 'Ok' on the Advanced User Accounts menu to finish...........

--> There is no password for the Administrators account on this PC. I
can't put one there because there isn't one. Why all this confusion that
those of us who are not geeks have to suffer through? Why on a HOME
machine? All I want it total control of my own PC.

I am going to tell you again. The minimal requirement for setting up a
user-id on NTFS is user-id, a password is not required.

Great! How do I get rid of all this UC aggravation and gain total control
of this PC?

You can't trun off NTFS. You can't get rid of it. You can't convert back to
FAT16 or FAT32, and those are the file systems that don't have secuirty
applied to them.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766145.aspx

There are no "USERS" listed under "Control Panel/Admin Tools/Computer
Management/" in my version of Vista Home Premium.

I didn't think I had to tell you to goto Control Panel/Admin
Tools/Computer/Management/Local users and groups/USERS.

It can't be that hard for you to add 2 + 2.

Which "security tab" are you talking about? On which window?

Well, you mean to tell me that if you goto Explore, right-click a folder or
a file in a folder, select Properties that you don't see the Secuirty tab
and that you don't see accounts on the folder or file?