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Microsoft patches applied - EVEN WHEN AUTOUPDATE IS OFF
Carol Haynes:
It gets even better - according to the WindowsSecrets newsletter today the updates have broken Windows XP's abilitlity to use the "Repair Install" facility from the CD. If you do this all goes well until you try to update your repaired installation and then there are 80 updates that will not install because MS has deregistered various WU files during the update and they aren't repaired back to a known state properly!
Brilliant!
You can read the article here: http://windowssecrets.com/comp/070927#story1
There are also instructions on how to fix the problem if required!
PlayPhil:
Hmm, according to my log files during this time I did not get these seriptitious updates...
In my Hosts file when WGA first started this (XP) nonesense quite a few months ago, I restored a just prior Image Backup and I added the following...
# Resent MS Joe Bob's wgatray.exe phoning home
# 192.168.0.1 is used to test connectivity to the host computer & can't be used
# 192.168.253.* Not tested
# So, max it up into the TOP unused Host IP
192.168.253.253 stats.update.microsoft.com # primary
192.168.253.253 statsupdate.microsoft.com.nsatc.net # also resolves to...
# /Resented :)
wurx4me....
bassclarinetl2:
I like to see my updates and what they are... ;)
I have it set that way for that reason.
-CleverCat (September 27, 2007, 02:28 AM)
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Me too. Even if I end up installing all of them, i still like to know what is going on.
Carol Haynes:
It get's better and better - now updates are being installed that force a reboot without user consent even when WU is completely disabled.
See http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=832 and the discussion that follows.
If you want to completely disable Windows Update so that you have control over what is going on there are two posts in the discussion which are a really useful overview. The second one is particularly helpful as it only shows how to disable (and re-enable for manual checks) WU without affecting other components:
http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12558-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=39891&messageID=733925&start=-9911
http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12558-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=39891&messageID=733961&start=-9911
Ralf Maximus:
It would be nice to have a little hootchie to turn this stuff on/off easily with a click.
Mmmmm... coding snack?
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