http://www.microsoft.com/security/ma...e/default.mspx
Every month now Microsoft pushes a new version of this via "automatic
updates". Is there any way (reg hack etc) to NOT have this download and
run every month ?

My reason for asking is that I see family/friends/small biz owners have
autoupdate disabled. I would LIKE to select which occuring "updates" to
NOT have downloaded and tell them to then leave autoupdate on. As it is
they report things to me like " when I enable it sometimes my disk drive
is doing things when I'm not on there" or " I don't want it running
while I'm on there - it slows me down"

Everyone I know has antivirus sw installed and I see no reason for "an
average user" to download this and run it every month. MAYBE corporate
shops with lots of salespeople DO want to push this to prevent some
idiot who let his kid use the pc from infecting the company: I'd rather
opt out. So I update manually - defeating the purpose of auto-fetching
the security updates.

Control Panel, Automatic Updates
Auto update has several options:
download and install
download and notify there are updates to install
notify but do not download
turn off auto update

I would say to use notify but do not download, the do a custom update and
choose the updates.
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Ronald Sommer

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: http://www.microsoft.com/security/ma...e/default.mspx
: Every month now Microsoft pushes a new version of this via "automatic
: updates". Is there any way (reg hack etc) to NOT have this download and
: run every month ?
:
: My reason for asking is that I see family/friends/small biz owners have
: autoupdate disabled. I would LIKE to select which occuring "updates" to
: NOT have downloaded and tell them to then leave autoupdate on. As it is
: they report things to me like " when I enable it sometimes my disk drive
: is doing things when I'm not on there" or " I don't want it running
: while I'm on there - it slows me down"
:
: Everyone I know has antivirus sw installed and I see no reason for "an
: average user" to download this and run it every month. MAYBE corporate
: shops with lots of salespeople DO want to push this to prevent some
: idiot who let his kid use the pc from infecting the company: I'd rather
: opt out. So I update manually - defeating the purpose of auto-fetching
: the security updates.
: