From: John Cuccia 

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 08:09:53 +0100, Adam Flinton
 wrote:

>John Cuccia wrote:
>> You can use the Control Panel Automatic Updates applet to turn off
>> Automatic Updates, and/or you can stop and disable the Automatic
>> Updates service.
>>
>>
>
>I have no reason not to wish to pick up IE fixes etc however (A) We're
>not supposed to have SP2 yet (B) I don't want to sign a EULA for a fix
>to an existing product.
>
>i.e. I want IE etc fixes but I want to knock SP2 off the list until I
>decide I want it (which might be never as I'm a gnat's foreskin from
>booting just to mandrake).

You can still connect to Windows Update manually to select the fixes you
want to install.

>What annoys is that cancel doesn't. I.e. once the SP2 has been dl'ed
>then the assumption is that you really do want it & "cancel" really
>means "later".

Yep.   MS knows best, Adam, don't ever forget that.

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