Re: one-time permanent blocking of MRT

I know you said that disabling automatic updates isn't an option. I was trying to tell you it is the only option that will accomplish what you want to do.

Life is about choices. You don't always get to choose which options are available. You do get to choose which option out of the available ones you want to use. Pick an available option.

1. Disable windows updates. This puts the onus on you to check for updates, then pick which ones to install.

2. Choose the option to notify you when updates are available. When notified peruse the list, pick the updates you want, and decline the rest.

3. Enable automatic updates and live the fact that once a month you will have to delete mrt.exe to reclaim 16 MB of hard drive space.

Those are the available choices. You may not like the choices but those are the choices available.

Personally I think you're crazy for declining mrt. The time and disk space involved are minimal. Just because none of your antimalware programs have ever detected an infection doesn't mean you haven't been infected or won't be infected at some future date. Allowing mrt to do it's thing once a month adds another level of protection for the cost of a few seconds of time.

--
Kerry Brown
MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/



"Costin Gusa" <CostinGusa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:77DE868B-FBB4-4308-B9C5-502889E8DF3A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Kerry Brown" wrote:

Set Windows Updates to off, then check manually. This gives you almost total
control over what gets downloaded. The only things that will be downloaded
without approval are updates to WU itself when you check for new updates.


I'm sorry I am forced to repeat myself to people who cannot read:
"No, disabling automatic updates is not an option. "

If you are that worried about a 16 MB file "eating" disk space then you have
other problems with the system. There are far more egregious "eaters" of
disk space than MRT. If you are down to where one 16 MB file is a problem
the system is already disastrously low on resources.


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You are completely offtopic. RE-READ my posts and find the questions (there
are 2 - "TWO") I asked for.
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Offtopic: Yes, I am worried about the disk space, but since you have already
thrown down the gauntlet: those 16MB of free space are MINE, i have PAID for
them and therefore is my RIGHT to KNOW how my MONEY are used.
Upgrading storage just because you are unable to identify the cause for
disk consumption? Replacing things (read 'from a small drive to a larger
drive') because you simply cannot handle them and not because of real storage
needs? No thanks. At least not until my brain is still performing well.
FYI, my system volume has 30Gb with over 20Gb free.

[old crap deleted]

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