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| | Restricting Automatic Updates to certain network interfaces Is there anyway to stop windows automatic updates from checking and downloading automatically based on what network interface is currently active? I was on a train eariler today using my bluetooth CDMA mobile phone to connect to the internet (a service which is chargable by the megabyte) when automatic updates started downloading a bunch of stuff. It would be very handy if I could stop automatic updates from using that interface. Is there a way this could be done or should this be a feature request? -- Chris Blake |
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| | Re: Restricting Automatic Updates to certain network interfaces Hi, You can't selectively choose which networks to use for downloading, but what you can do instead is set automatic updates to prompt for whether or not to download them rather than doing it automatically. This way at least you will have a chance to decline downloading when connected in that manner. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "Fearful1138" <Fearful1138@xxxxxx> wrote in message news 0D7F780-C7E3-4809-BBBC-A27C5A75BB62@xxxxxxQuote: > Is there anyway to stop windows automatic updates from checking and > downloading automatically based on what network interface is currently > active? > > I was on a train eariler today using my bluetooth CDMA mobile phone to > connect to the internet (a service which is chargable by the megabyte) > when > automatic updates started downloading a bunch of stuff. It would be very > handy if I could stop automatic updates from using that interface. > > Is there a way this could be done or should this be a feature request? > -- > Chris Blake |
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