Most of that stuff I know, Marnie. If something annoys me enough I learn
how to deal with it. The most difficult one was getting rid of the
nagging baloons.
There is, although I can not remember what it is off hand, a command
line command where systems administrators can disable automatic, and
even manual updates. It is just a matter of finding out where in that
1298 page book it is <grin>.
You can shut off most of the services Win XP runs, just click on
services in the administration window. The hard part is figuring out
what is necessary and what is a mere annoyance. At one time I had it
down to 19 processes including the programs like AVG that I wanted
running all the time. With the auto-updates running that has crept up to
like 28-33.
So why was I running those auto-updates anyway? Well, someone had
convinced me that WinXP was a bad security risk, and if I did not have
those updates keeping it from being a virus magnet I would be sorry....
I just checked my usual security the things that I personally set, and
it shows that my system would be difficult it break into from the
Internet. Since it is impossible to make it impossible, I think I should
just accept difficult. I do now have updates turned off but Windows
keeps flashing that little yellow shield at me. That is my next project,
making it disappear. But to get the look and feel back to the way I like
it, it does seem like I am going to have to nuke the OS and start over.
I think update has actually removed the old skins from my computer.
graywolf
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 5/2/2006 6:52:16 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thanks, Marnie. I am saving this so I will have the info handy.
graywolf
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You know, now that I think about it, that may not be the way to disable
Windows updates.
