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As promised here is a little guide to help you turn off Windows Update, if you so wish. Just click "Read More..." at the bottom of this post to go to the full guide.
Part 1.
Okay, this is quite easy really. First thing you should do is head down to the "Start" menu. The 'Start' menu is now a little Windows icon, on previous Windows Operating Systems it use to just say "Start" - hence why I refer to it as the Start menu, I guess you could call it the Windows Icon Menu now.
Once you click this icon, a pop up menu will appear. Where you can navigate your programs and such. At the bottom of this menu on Vista there is a text box (highlighted in red in the above picture) where it says "Start Search". This is the fast search box and will basically search everything on your computer, programs, files, cached websites, etc.
Part 2.
Once you click on the text that says "Start Search" the text will disappear and your computer is now ready for you to type in what you are looking for. All you have to do is type "update" or whatever your looking for, no need to press enter. Once you have done this the white space above the search box will change, where it usually lists recently used programs it will now show entries that match your search criteria.
It will list the found items by category, programs, history, files and so on. We are looking for a program, this is usually listed at the top. As you can see in the image above, the entry "Windows Update" is visible right at the top of the window. Clicking on the text "Windows Update" will start the program.
Part 3.
After starting the program a new window will appear and the start menu will disappear. This new window is Windows Updates homepage on Vista. The main white space gives a run down on what has happened recently regarding updates, and on the left side we have the Windows Update menu.
All we have to do is navigate this menu and find "Change Settings", highlighted in red in the above picture. Clicking on this will then change the main window again, changing its current location from "Windows Update" to "Windows Update > Change Settings". This brings us on to part four, the last part of this guide.
Part 4.
As you can see from the picture below, you are confronted with four different options. The three we are looking at in this guide are the bottom three, highlighted with a little red arrow pointing them out.
The three options you can choose from that stop automatic updates are quite useful.
No.2; The second option downloads the updates as and when Windows decides to download them. Rather than automatically installing them though, and prompting you to restart. Instead it prompts you asking if you are ready to install, and then is followed by the restart prompts if required.
No. 3; The third option in the list checks for updates periodically but does not download nor install them. It does however prompt you, asking you whether to download them, once this is done, it prompts you again asking if you want to install them. Thus giving you the option to download the ones you want and the ones you don't want, and the extra option to ensure you have selected the right ones before it installs.
No. 4; The one at the bottom never checks for updates, you can just do it manually yourself whenever you decide you want to update. This is one the I use.
Thanks for reading my guide, I hope you found it useful.
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