jjeff26 said:
i have installed various programs on my computer, and it seems like every
one
of them wants to look for updates (not just security programs, i.e. Kodak
for
digital pictures). is there a way using XP i can get them to stop asking
for
updates? i have turned off the windows update but it doesn't seem to work
for
anything else....
Look in the program's options for a setting to turn this off. Look in task
manager at the running processes. Research the ones that are there to see
what each one does. If it's associated with the update of a program, and
you can't turn it off in the options for that program, disable it from
running in msconfig.
Here are a list of research sites to find out what the processes shown in
task manager are.
www.google.com
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm
http://castlecops.com/StartupList.html
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm
http://www.theeldergeek.com/services_guide.htm
First step to eliminate a program from running at startup should be to check
in the options for the program you don't want to start and see if there is a
setting to tell it not to run at startup. The next step is to remove any
entries you don't want from the two startup folders:
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
For anything else uncheck their entries in the startup tab of msconfig:
Start | Run | Msconfig | Ok
Another option is to remove the reference to them from one of these keys in
the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
Make sure you have a backup of the registry using a program like ERUNT
before making any changes to the registry.
ERUNT
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/erunt.txt
Installing and Using ERUNT
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html
http://www.winxptutor.com/regback.htm