Damage to original installation of XP due to update

[John barnett - MVP]

That's an easy one. Go to Control panel and click on the
System icon. In the system window click on the Windows
Update tab and remove the tick mark from the box
marked 'keep my computer up to date......'

Hope this helps

John Barnett - MS MVP
Associate Expert
>-----Original Message-----
>I am desperately searching for ways to stop updates
forced
>on me whenever I connect to the web. To begin with, my
>system was working very well until I said yes to the
>update offer which kept popping up. The amount of
>downloading came to about 40 MB and took about 20 hours
>with many interruptions. Finally an installation took
>place and after that the system started behaving in a
>crazy way. Having reset it to the condition of before
>the "update" it works again but I Explorer refuses to
find
>sites with messages such as: "cannot find server or DNS
>error", "internet explorer could not open the search
>page", "cannot find server". Meanwhile I have noticed
that
>MS updating resumed again and I would like to find a way
>to stop this process to avoid further damage. I assume
>that the downloads are corrupted in
thetransmission.Please
>tell me how to stop this forced updating. Please help!
>.
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