“Rule #1 of striving for a smooth uneventful relationship with a M-soft OS: Never ever under any circumstances, have automatic updates turned on.”
I have mine turned off, yet I have the yellow shield icon at the bottom. How can I get rid of it?
On my other computer I just ignored it and it installed some updates anyway. I would like to stop it on this computer.
I have the yellow shield icon at the bottom. I don’t know how to get rid of it, since a tiny icon down there doesn’t bother me in any way whatsoever.
I do eventually install quite a few of the M-soft updates, but by having automatic updates turned off, it gives me the ability to go thru the list of updates available at my convenience, and pick and choose what I want to download and install. I don’t do this very frequently, as I give time to let the automatic updaters be the guinea pigs to find out if there are any problems with any of the updats. It also gives me the opportunity to do any quick research online, if I suspect for any reason that a particular update might be causing others problems.
I have found that in the last few years, when M-soft comes out with new versions of their programs that are packaged with XP, more often than not, in my opinion, the old ones work better. For example, I found that versions of Windows Media Player after version 10 do not work as well as 10, so I repeatedly ignore ‘reminders’ that they have an updated version for me. I also use an older version of IE, as I have used the newer versions, and do not like them.