Turn OFF Windows Update in 98

How do I turn off automatic update in windows 98? I have a slow dial-up
connection and when I log on after a few minutes everything slows down and
the Windows Update message comes up. I don't want it to do that
automaticly...I want to tell windows when I want to update. In theinternet
options I have auto update unchecked but that looks like it is for IE only.
Thanks for any information, Allyn

Halo wrote:
> How do I turn off automatic update in windows 98? I have a slow
> dial-up connection and when I log on after a few minutes everything
> slows down and the Windows Update message comes up. I don't want it
> to do that automaticly...I want to tell windows when I want to
> update. In theinternet options I have auto update unchecked but that
> looks like it is for IE only. Thanks for any information, Allyn

I don't have Win98 handy, but I think this is something you can set in
control panel.

"Halo" wrote:

> How do I turn off automatic update in windows 98? I have a slow dial-up
> connection and when I log on after a few minutes everything slows down and
> the Windows Update message comes up. I don't want it to do that
> automaticly...I want to tell windows when I want to update. In theinternet
> options I have auto update unchecked but that looks like it is for IE only.
> Thanks for any information, Allyn

Lanwench, If it is there I can not find it...and I have looked everywhere.
After one update it has been doing it automaticly ever since and I haven't
been able to find anywhere to shut it off. Thanks, Allyn

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

> Halo wrote:
> > How do I turn off automatic update in windows 98? I have a slow
> > dial-up connection and when I log on after a few minutes everything
> > slows down and the Windows Update message comes up. I don't want it
> > to do that automaticly...I want to tell windows when I want to
> > update. In theinternet options I have auto update unchecked but that
> > looks like it is for IE only. Thanks for any information, Allyn
>
> I don't have Win98 handy, but I think this is something you can set in
> control panel.
>
>
>

Never having used the automatic update in Win98, I am just guessing
here but try these in the order below.

1. Try disabling it in the Task Scheduler.
2. Try disabling it in Msconfig
(Start-Run-MSCONFIG-Startup tab)
3. See if there is an entry in Control Panel-Add/Remove

....Alan

--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html

In microsoft.public.windowsupdate, "Halo"
<> wrote:

>How do I turn off automatic update in windows 98? I have a slow dial-up
>connection and when I log on after a few minutes everything slows down and
>the Windows Update message comes up. I don't want it to do that
>automaticly...I want to tell windows when I want to update. In theinternet
>options I have auto update unchecked but that looks like it is for IE only.
>Thanks for any information, Allyn

Alan, Thank you very much...it was in the msconfig...startup tab. A check box
for
"Critical Updates", and now it is un-checked. Again...many thanks, Allyn

"Alan Edwards" wrote:

> Never having used the automatic update in Win98, I am just guessing
> here but try these in the order below.
>
> 1. Try disabling it in the Task Scheduler.
> 2. Try disabling it in Msconfig
> (Start-Run-MSCONFIG-Startup tab)
> 3. See if there is an entry in Control Panel-Add/Remove
>
> ....Alan
>
> --
> Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
> http://dts-l.org/index.html
>
> In microsoft.public.windowsupdate, "Halo"
> <> wrote:
>
> >How do I turn off automatic update in windows 98? I have a slow dial-up
> >connection and when I log on after a few minutes everything slows down and
> >the Windows Update message comes up. I don't want it to do that
> >automaticly...I want to tell windows when I want to update. In theinternet
> >options I have auto update unchecked but that looks like it is for IE only.
> >Thanks for any information, Allyn
>
>