On Vista, how to keep MS Office from trying to update?

When I had first installed MS Office I was asked if I wanted to us
Microsoft Automatic Updates to find updates for the program and I chos
yes. Today I uninstalled MS Office 2007 in favor of a different program
However, there are 11 updates that Auto Update keeps insisting I instal
for MS Office even though MS Office is no longer on my system! How do
tell the computer that it should stop trying to update MS Office?

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Seijun

windows update, change settings, uncheck box at bottom that says use update
service to update other programs

"Seijun" <> wrote in message
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> When I had first installed MS Office I was asked if I wanted to use
> Microsoft Automatic Updates to find updates for the program and I chose
> yes. Today I uninstalled MS Office 2007 in favor of a different program.
> However, there are 11 updates that Auto Update keeps insisting I install
> for MS Office even though MS Office is no longer on my system! How do I
> tell the computer that it should stop trying to update MS Office??
>
>
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> Seijun

Hi Seijun, those are optional updates which are not recommended for your
computer. you can delete the *software distribution *folder from
*c:\windows\system32\SoftwareDistribution folder*. It contains all the
updates packages. *delete *the folder and restart the computer. OR
just to be on a safer side, *take ownership* of this folder and then
rename the folder as *SoftwareDistribution.old *and then create a new
folder named *SoftwareDistribution* and restart the computer.
then run windows update.


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dinesh

Hope that works ! ! !
Dinesh.

Thanks you

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Seijun

Your Welcome Seiju

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dinesh