How to turn off the updates available balloon

SP2 doesn't work on my computer. I installed it once and then had to use
Ghost to recover my drive. It wouldn't even boot. If I didn't have Ghost,
I would have lost years of data and tens of gigs of programs and updates.
Once is enough. My first impression with SP2 was my last.
MS seems to take the Government attitude, "If it ain't broke, keep fixing
it until it is." My machine is purring along fine without SP2, thank you
very much.

So, until MS comes up with a better SP2(a?), I would like to be able to
stop that annoying little bubble from popping up everytime I reboot
telling me that updates are available.

Is there a registry tweak? Or is it simpler? Or, has MS made it impossible?

Thanks
hey nonny nonny

Temporarily Disabling Delivery of Windows XP Service Pack 2 through
Windows Update and Automatic Updates
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro.../sp2aumng.mspx
or
http://tinyurl.com/5al4x

Toolkit to Temporarily Block Delivery of Windows XP SP2 to a PC Through
Automatic Updates and Windows
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
or
http://tinyurl.com/4an3w


"a nonny mouse" <> wrote in message
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> SP2 doesn't work on my computer. I installed it once and then had to use
> Ghost to recover my drive. It wouldn't even boot. If I didn't have Ghost,
> I would have lost years of data and tens of gigs of programs and updates.
> Once is enough. My first impression with SP2 was my last.
> MS seems to take the Government attitude, "If it ain't broke, keep fixing
> it until it is." My machine is purring along fine without SP2, thank you
> very much.
>
> So, until MS comes up with a better SP2(a?), I would like to be able to
> stop that annoying little bubble from popping up everytime I reboot
> telling me that updates are available.
>
> Is there a registry tweak? Or is it simpler? Or, has MS made it impossible?
>
> Thanks
> hey nonny nonny

a nonny mouse wrote:

> SP2 doesn't work on my computer. I installed it once and then had to use
> Ghost to recover my drive. It wouldn't even boot. If I didn't have Ghost,
> I would have lost years of data and tens of gigs of programs and updates.
> Once is enough. My first impression with SP2 was my last.
> MS seems to take the Government attitude, "If it ain't broke, keep fixing
> it until it is." My machine is purring along fine without SP2, thank you
> very much.
>
> So, until MS comes up with a better SP2(a?), I would like to be able to
> stop that annoying little bubble from popping up everytime I reboot
> telling me that updates are available.
>
> Is there a registry tweak? Or is it simpler? Or, has MS made it impossible?
Hi

To avoid that Windows Updates/Automatic Updates tries to install
SP2 at all (up to 12. April 2005):

Toolkit to Temporarily Block Delivery of Windows XP SP2 to a PC
Through Automatic Updates and Windows Update
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Run the XPSP2BlockerTools.exe in the link above. It will extract
several files to the folder you specify.

Then run XPSP2Blocker.exe to activate the blockage (it will create
the registry value described in the link above).

If SP2 have started to download (or are ready to install), and you
want to get rid of the files without installing SP2, clean out the
Download folder (WU5's temporary download folder) located here:

%windir%\SoftwareDistribution\

(%windir% is typically C:\Windows)


This will not block you from installing SP2 from e.g. the SP2 CD
later on...


To remove the pending download you now have, clean out the
Download folder (WU5's temporary download folder) located here:

%windir%\SoftwareDistribution\

(%windir% is typically C:\Windows)

You can use the procedure described here:

http://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.co...cleid=11&ln=en

You might need to delete the DataStore folder mentioned in the link
above, as well as the Download folder.




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