Vista - stop and start windows update service

How do I stop and start windows update service on Windows Vista ?

"James Bond" <jbond@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uytSoQEYJHA.2620@xxxxxxMaybe the same way as in earlier versions of Windows: net stop "Automatic
Updates". I would repost the question in a Vista newsgroup - it is not
really relevant in a VB Script newsgroup.

As Pegasus said, you're in the wrong group
unless you want to do it via script. If so,
you need WMI.

Here's some "air code" to do it. I can't vouch for
total accuracy, as it's still early in the morning
for me and I just pulled this code out a larger script:

sStartName = "wuauserv"

Set WMI = GetObject("WinMgmts:")
Set oServ2 = WMI.Get("Win32_Service.Name='" & sStartName & "'")
iRet = oServ2.ChangeStartMode("disabled")
If (oServ2.State = "Running") Then iRet2 = oServ2.StopService
Set oServ2 = Nothing
Set WMI = Nothing

For more details see www.jsware.net/jsware/xpfix.php5
The "XPFix" download there includes an HTA GUI program
for cleaning up unnecessary services. The file XPFixOpsS.vbs,
in the download, is where the code is for checking, starting,
stopping and changing services status. Note, though, that
WMI is not foolproof. I've found that some services set to
disabled somehow get started again, even though they may
not be necessary services. I haven't taken the trouble to
research exactly which services are problematic that way,
but I think it's a good idea to keep an eye on services that
you *think* are under your control.

is there any way to run this code as an admin, i need to run it as a startup script in group policy, however it wont run as users dont have admin permission.

any help would be much appreciated as been looking everywhere.

thanks


sStartName = "wuauserv"

Set WMI = GetObject("WinMgmts:")
Set oServ2 = WMI.Get("Win32_Service.Name='" & sStartName & "'")
iRet = oServ2.ChangeStartMode("disabled")
If (oServ2.State = "Running") Then iRet2 = oServ2.StopService
Set oServ2 = Nothing
Set WMI = Nothing