I noticed that after installing Windows XP SP2, that a pesky reminder always tells you that your system is not setup for auto-update. That’s what I want. Does anyone know how to stop this message from loading on the systray?
Go to control panel - then to the Security center group icon - then on the auto-updates Properties on the bottom - set it to either "tell me when updates are there" or downlaod and tell me when they are ready" and the auto-updates section in the center should turn yellow. This will turn off the message in the system try. The message will continue however, if any of the sections in the center are red. Follow the instructions in the different sections to make them either yellow or green andyou will see no messages.
SP2 is temporarily removed from the Windows Update site. August 25 is expected as the new release date.
As to notifications appearing and stopping them, from the newsgroups. Open notepad and create a new file to be called no_complain.reg and then copy/paste the below:
---------Start copy/paste below this line-------
REGEDIT4
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;
; Dont complain about the firewall being off.
;
; Also turns off anti-virus and Automatic Update warnings.
; Comment out the lines below as desired.
;
Please let me note that the above registry edit includes all the notifications involved with Service Pack 2. Please pick and choose as needed and delete the others.
If you want to do this manually then do the following
Start > Control Panel > Security Center > On the left click on "Change the way security center alerts me" > Untick the Automatic Updates box > Click OK > Close out of Security Center.
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