That was the very first thing I did when I got XP installed; disable automatic updates!
Thanks Peter, I missed that area the first time I used TweakUI. Great thing to check those boxes! I thought by enabling classic search in the search area itself would do it, but evidently it does not. The Tweakui method worked fine. -Clint God Bless Us All Clint Hamilton, Owner Want to exchange links with us? http://OrpheusComputing.com � ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Kaulback" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You can disable the Automatic Updates service by going to Administrative Tools in Control Panel, open Services and look for Automatic Updates, double click to open its properties, stop the service and set it to disabled. The service will remain on even if one turns off Automatic Updates through the System panel, this makes it permanently unavailable. You can stop the search function from sending info to ms with TweakUI for XP by going to Explorer and setting the search feature to classic search. Get XP Power Toys here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp Virtual Desktop Manager is a nice add-on. More XP tips: http://tibit.com/technote/winxp.html http://www.jsiinc.com/reghack.htm#Tip%20Index Peter Kaulback In the hour of 01:04 AM 13/03/2003 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke this: >So how is it disabled? Also, how is the Search Assistant >disabled, if it can be without messing things up. > >Another thing I noticed that Sygate is seeing is DLL's constantly >being loaded in the background with XP. Is this normal? >-Clint ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
