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| Guest | 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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| Guest | 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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