Samsung promises to stop disabling Windows Update
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The behavior came to light earlier this week after debugger and reverse engineer Patrick Barker began investigating why Windows Update kept getting disabled – checking for updates but never downloading or installing them – on a misbehaving machine. Barker discovered that Samsung's SW Update was downloading a program called Disable_Windowsupdate.exe which, true to its name, was disabling Windows Update each time the system started.
Don't be upset, it was just a workaround.
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The behavior came to light earlier this week after debugger and reverse engineer Patrick Barker began investigating why Windows Update kept getting disabled – checking for updates but never downloading or installing them – on a misbehaving machine. Barker discovered that Samsung's SW Update was downloading a program called Disable_Windowsupdate.exe which, true to its name, was disabling Windows Update each time the system started.
Don't be upset, it was just a workaround.
Not exactly a bad idea to turn them off. Except I would loose a good potion on my fixing updates gone bad conditions business that comes in the door. Win8 seems to do this more than I've seen previous ms os's do.