I have never had an issue allowing end users to click "Install updates and Shutdown" at the end of the day until recently. Call me stupid, yeah, come on, you know you want to. It has never posed too much of an issue until there was a driver update to the Microsoft Wave Kernel Device that pretty much disabled onboard sound for the majority of my PC's.
I usually push patches out about twice a month with Shavlik, so, there is really no need for Windows updates. However, I don't really want to disable windows updates all together on my client machines. What I would like to do is determine if there is a registry hack that will turn off the system tray icon and the update notifications in XP. If I could find the regsitry key, I could put it in the login scripts and stop the helpdesks request that say
EMAIL SUBJECT: Good Morning.
BODY: Every day when I come in to work I have click her to install updates on my a computere and nobody ever told us if supposed to do when we see the screen that says this. I usually push the x because I don't know. Is this waht I supposed to do or am I messing it up and it's the reason my comp is slow?
Thanks
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