How do I cancel an update?

Is there any way to cancel an Automatic Update. It's been downloading for
over 6 hours. The total is 12 hrs...zzzzzzzzzz. I'd rather istall in parts as
I saw I could. Help??!!

Miss Pickles,

> I'd rather istall in parts as I saw I could.

Which update is it ? To cancel the update, go to Start > Run
Type in

net stop wuauserv
Click OK

Navigate to the WINDOWS\Software Distribution\Downloads folder and
delete all contents of it

The Automatic Updates service, that we stopped by running the
net stop wuauserv command, must be restarted for updates to install

To do that, go to Start > Run > type in

net start wuauserv
Click OK
If you restart the AU service then the update will download again.
It may just have been that the Downloads folder was stuffed up or data
in there was corrupted/damaged.


MowGreen [MVP 2003-2007]
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Miss Pickles wrote:

> Is there any way to cancel an Automatic Update. It's been downloading for
> over 6 hours. The total is 12 hrs...zzzzzzzzzz. I'd rather istall in parts as
> I saw I could. Help??!!