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Old 03-11-2008   #1 (permalink)
Michael Moser
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Can one suppress specific update notifications?

Occasionally M$ tries to push certain updates down us customers' throats
by marking them as "Important", even though they are as useful as a hole
in the head.

Under Windows XP as far as I recall one was able to mark these as "Don't
show me again" and then they wouldn't appear any more.
In Vista I am currently every noon pestered by a ballon trying to tell
me that I need to install an update whose purpose is to "Allow Vista to
detect programs that bypass product activation..." ||-( .

Would it have come as part of one of those "patch tuesday's" collections
and reasonably labeled I would not have any problem installing it. But
distributing this as the only update and then even labeling this as
"important" I consider an ignorant abuse of customers' time and
attention!

How can one tell Vista somehow to suppress showing and stop pestering me
with such rubbish?

Michael




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Old 03-11-2008   #2 (permalink)
Jeff Smith [MSFT]
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RE: Can one suppress specific update notifications?

You can bury any available update by opening the Windows Update panel,
clicking 'View available updates', right-clicking on the offending update,
and selecting 'Hide update'. It won't be offered again.


"Michael Moser" wrote:
Quote:

> Occasionally M$ tries to push certain updates down us customers' throats
> by marking them as "Important", even though they are as useful as a hole
> in the head.
>
> Under Windows XP as far as I recall one was able to mark these as "Don't
> show me again" and then they wouldn't appear any more.
> In Vista I am currently every noon pestered by a ballon trying to tell
> me that I need to install an update whose purpose is to "Allow Vista to
> detect programs that bypass product activation..." ||-( .
>
> Would it have come as part of one of those "patch tuesday's" collections
> and reasonably labeled I would not have any problem installing it. But
> distributing this as the only update and then even labeling this as
> "important" I consider an ignorant abuse of customers' time and
> attention!
>
> How can one tell Vista somehow to suppress showing and stop pestering me
> with such rubbish?
>
> Michael
>
>
>
>
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