Re: SP2 and Sec Center nags

From: R. McCarty (PcEngWork-NoSpam__at_mindspring.com)
Date: 10/04/04


Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 19:15:05 GMT

Disable both Security Center and Automatic Updates via Services.Msc.

"PaulS" <PaulS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:011C761D-9613-4FF8-A741-E859174E6C30@microsoft.com...
> I'm in charge of maintaining the machines in a SOHO with a handful of XP
> Pro
> boxes. I recently put SP2 on all three, but because I have autoupdate
> disabled ( I prefer to test patches on my machine before deploying), the
> users are getting nag balloons from Security Center complaining that
> autoupdates are off. I've enabled "Turn off access to all Windows Update
> features" and "Remove links and access to Windows Update" in the Group
> Policy
> settings, but no dice. All users have admin rights thanks to a requirement
> from an ancient finance package. Thoughts? This is driving me crazy.



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