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Steve Mann wrote on 6/5/2012, 4:40 PM
This is never an issue with me since I keep all my PC's updated by Microsoft. (And Vegas never crashes here - is there a connection?)

Your System Specs says you're running Vista, but maybe you haven't updated the info yet.

Is your PC a BYO or OEM? I had an HP computer that would do this until I re-installed Windows from a BYO installation disc. HP, and I am sure other manufacturers also, modifies their distribution of Windows. HP explains this as a security and quality "feature". It makes sense for the computer illiterate who depend on their PC dealer for all maintenance. This way they won't spend any time installing Windows Updates.
mudsmith wrote on 6/5/2012, 6:20 PM
I am looking at the settings on my relatively new install of Win 7 Pro (64). I can go to Start/All Programs/Windows Update/Change Settings and choose Never Check for Updates. This is persistent through a Restart. I really don't see any place else with my layout that allows you to change any settings. I am not sure how you are turning it off, but that is the only place I see to do it, and it stays off.

I would add that I do not, as a matter of course, keep this NLE computer on the internet, only putting it on when I need a download/upgrade and taking it off. This is a very old, ingrained pattern, and I would not even be putting it on if it were not Win 7, which is more secure than early OSs. Keeping firewalls and virus protections on all the time has traditionally interfered with DAW and NLE operations, and doing anything like email is certainly still a virus magnet.
JJKizak wrote on 6/6/2012, 6:58 AM
This is my online computer constructed by me and I purchased the Win7 from NewEgg. The computer is shut off cold about 3 times per day. I have zero problems with Vista 64 in the movie computer and not very likely to update it to Win 7 judging by all of the "anomolies" Win 7 contains. The Vista 64 "Never Check for Updates" works perfectly.
JJK
Chienworks wrote on 6/6/2012, 8:07 AM
Intriguing, because most of the IT folks i know who use Windows either ditched Vista for 7 as quickly as possible, or skipped over Vista completely waiting for 7 to come out. We've all considered 7 to be much more usable and functional that Vista.

Well, on the very few PCs we have running a Microsoft OS, that is.
JJKizak wrote on 6/6/2012, 2:18 PM
In all fairness Win 7 doesn't like my old motherboard and lets me know about it occasionally.
JJK
mudsmith wrote on 6/6/2012, 2:24 PM
This is a head scratcher, I guess. The only difference I see between your setup and mine is that yours is 32bit. When I set to not check for updates, however, it always persists through a reboot.

No one else seems to be having the problem.......I wonder if there is some other security setting that is triggering this?

You must be clicking OK or Apply after you make the setting, so I just don't see why it would change.
JJKizak wrote on 6/6/2012, 2:34 PM
I thought for a minute that Microsoft Esesntials (security) was messing with it or something I downloaded from Microsoft Update.
JJK
JJKizak wrote on 6/6/2012, 2:51 PM
OK I got it fixed. It was some kind of AMD update driver icon on the display. Deleted it and now OK.
JJK