Hi Ben....I had not thought of that, but I just checked in the add/remove
applets and there is nothing listed with "Critical Update" as it's name or
part of it's name....any other thoughts?
Alice


At 4/21/02 11:41 PM, you wrote:
>You have to uninstall critical update from the add/remove programs applet in
>the control panel.  That's the only way I know of stopping it.  Once it's
>installed it will always turn itself back on.
>
>Ben Moore
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Alice L. Blankenship" <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > I have a very annoying problem that I hope you can help me with. I set
> > the Microsoft Critical Update task to run a while back and for my own
> > reasons I want it to stop checking. Well I have tried every way I could
>think of
> > to get rid of this from the task scheduler, including deleting, and
> > setting the run time 10 yrs in the future and setting it so it was in the
> > past. It would temporarily disable it, but the next time I boot, its back
>again
> > with my original settings. It goes off every evening while I'm in the
> > middle of working and is driving me nuts. I had it on my computer at work
>and I
> > merely deleted the task and its never come back any more. Why won't my
> > personal computor do the same? PLEASE HELP!
>
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