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Shut down Windows Updates?
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:09 pm
by thewolfe
I'm working on a machine running very slow and I noticed that Windows is downloading updates. It has moved 2 % in the last half hour and it's at 43% now.
Can I go into Processes in the Taskmgr and delete the update mgr and restart and see if I can get a faster download or should I leave it alone?
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:45 pm
by CDN_Merlin
Turn off Auto updates, then do them manually.
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 9:12 pm
by thewolfe
Gotcha, thanks.
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 11:33 am
by MD-2389
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:13 pm
by thewolfe
I was actually talking about an update in process. But it seemed to work when I went to the M$ update site and worked from there.
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:18 pm
by JMEaT
If you see the process \"wuauclt.exe\" end it. That is the main component of Windows Update. (It will also utilize an instance of SvcHost)
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 5:04 pm
by thewolfe
That's what I was wondering about. Thanks.
Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 2:57 pm
by AceCombat
the SVCHost is B.I.T.S. starting up
B.I.T.S. = Background Intelligent Transfers Service
Re:
Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:23 pm
by MD-2389
thewolfe wrote:I was actually talking about an update in process. But it seemed to work when I went to the M$ update site and worked from there.
Set it up like in that screenshot and they won't auto-download.
Ace: Several windows services use svchost.exe, not just BITS.
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:29 am
by Krom
If you want to kill B.I.T.S. do not go killing svchost.exe as doing so will probably bluescreen or hardlock your OS in short order.
Kill it by stopping \"Background Intelligent Transfer Service\" in services.msc (Start ---> Run ---> \"services.msc\").
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:43 am
by JMEaT
Also of note:
If you disable BITS the windows update website will ask to re-enable it to work.
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 3:55 pm
by Tunnelcat
Just turn off Automatic Windows Update, at least with XP, and go there manually on every second Tuesday of the month (after 12:00 PM PST in the U.S.) and just select 'custom install' and then 'critical updates', not any of the hardware or software ones unless you see what they are first. Watch out for the driver updates from them.
One of their hardware updates really trashed my sound card drivers, so check first. Then the updater won't be trying to run at an inopportune time. If Vista won't let you turn off Automatic Updates, well, just another reason to hate Vista
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 6:25 pm
by AceCombat
Krom wrote:If you want to kill B.I.T.S. do not go killing svchost.exe as doing so will probably bluescreen or hardlock your OS in short order.
Kill it by stopping "Background Intelligent Transfer Service" in services.msc (Start ---> Run ---> "services.msc").
i know this and i should have said so.... my bad
MD-2389 wrote:Ace: Several windows services use svchost.exe, not just BITS.
yes i know, my bad i should have detailed that
