Re: I am sick of windows firewall

Sebastian Gottschalk wrote:

V S Rawat wrote:
Sebastian Gottschalk wrote:

Several program will not give any option to
manually check for updates. It is necessary to select the
biggest duration, like monthly in wmp.
Wrong. WMP update check can be disabled in Group Golicy.

HKLM\SW\M$\MediaPlayer\PlayerUpgrade ->
"EnableAutoUpgrade"="no"
HKLM\SW\Policies\M$\WindowsMediaPlayer
->"DisableAutoUpdate"=dword:1

You techy or what?

I once figured those out and added them to a custom WMP10
installer (skins.inf and skinsmui.inf are unauthenticated).

Tools - Options - Player:
Automatic updates: Check for updates: One a day/ Once a week/
Once a month
(ticked) download codecs automatically.

Group Policy, Computer Configuration, Administrative
Templates, Windows Components, Windows Media Player, Prevent
Automatic Updates

Group Policy might not be available on WinXP Home, but who
likes to run crippleware anyway? Anyway, the registry values
are fully documented,

plus there are several options which are selected as default.
They all are to connect to net and download what not.

Yeah, and changing them, including the Group Policy settings
makes Windows Media Player silent as documented.

Hmm.

Good that there is a way out.

I could not find group policy under control panel. It is not
under user accounts.

how to reach there?

I am at xpsp2 pro, and am single user, thus admin.

thanks.
--
Rawat
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