Thanks, Don; I wish there were any such option!  I've tried about 
everything in the T'bird menu and can't find it.  Went to Mozilla Help 
and can't really find anything there either.  It'd take me a week!

I didn't spot anything in MSCONFIG relating specifically to T'bird; 
would that be in the update scheduler somewhere?

One other option may be to download the update to my laptop -- but it is 
a 64-bit machine running W7 and past experience has taught me that this 
32-bit machine (XP) is not compatible.  I can't "read" _any_ kind of 
memory created on the laptop here:  not a CD, not a DVD, and not a USB 
memory stick.  I guess the speeds don't match?  Is there a way around 
that?  Thanks again...

Joyce in SE Ohio



On 5/13/2012 11:19 AM, don penlington wrote:
> Joyce wrote:
> <<is there a way to turn off T'bird updates? >>
>
> I don't use T'Bird, so can't say for certain, but there ought to be an 
> option for this somewhere in its tools/options.
>
> Failing that, run msconfig (Start Menu, click Run, type   msconfig    
> then hit Enter), click on the startup tab at the top, and see if 
> there's anything relating to TBird updates. If so, untick it and OK. 
> While you're there, also untick anything else you don't need running 
> at startup.  You're not disabling the program, just telling it you 
> don't want it running in the background all the time. A lot of 
> software these days is way too invasive in this way (printers are 
> usually the worst offenders).
>
> On restart, msconfig will remind you that you have made this change. 
> Tick the box that says "Don't remind me again". Remove anything you 
> are in doubt about---if anything doesn't work later, you can always 
> re-tick it again. Msconfig is very safe to use, it won't allow you to 
> untick anything vital to the system. It will remember what you have 
> unticked.
>
> Failing that, go into Services and see if there's a Tbird update 
> service that you can set to manual rather than automatic (or disable 
> it if necesary).
>
> Don Penlington
>
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