windows update with automatic updates disabled

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on my main machine i am able to download updates from
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp with
automatic updates - disabled
background intellegent transfer service - manual
& event log - automatic - started

with the same settings on my newly installed machine with the same cd-key
and website i'm redirected to
http://update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/default.aspx and i'm notified
that i need the automatic updates, BITS, and event log services started

both machines are using the same version of windows installer (v3.1),
internet connection, xp-sp2, and neither has gone through the genuine
windows activation process

does anyone know why is this process different for my two machines?

ashecorven

 

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In article <ddp1fn$2f3k$1@otis.netspace.net.au>, ashecorven says...
> on my main machine i am able to download updates from
> http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp with
> automatic updates - disabled
> background intellegent transfer service - manual
> & event log - automatic - started
>
> with the same settings on my newly installed machine with the same cd-key
> and website i'm redirected to
> http://update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/default.aspx and i'm notified
> that i need the automatic updates, BITS, and event log services started
>
> both machines are using the same version of windows installer (v3.1),
> internet connection, xp-sp2, and neither has gone through the genuine
> windows activation process
>
You are using the same CD key on machine 2 that you used on machine 1?


--
Conor

If Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened
rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic
music.

 

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to answer your question:-
yeah, but it's only temporary.
the older machine is going to be formatted and sold soon, so i've gotta get
this new one working.

in relation to my post:-
i take it you have no useful input

ashecorven

"Conor" <conor.turton@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1d6ab12de3a2b8f98a723@news.individual.net...
> In article <ddp1fn$2f3k$1@otis.netspace.net.au>, ashecorven says...
>> on my main machine i am able to download updates from
>> http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp with
>> automatic updates - disabled
>> background intellegent transfer service - manual
>> & event log - automatic - started
>>
>> with the same settings on my newly installed machine with the same cd-key
>> and website i'm redirected to
>> http://update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/default.aspx and i'm
>> notified
>> that i need the automatic updates, BITS, and event log services started
>>
>> both machines are using the same version of windows installer (v3.1),
>> internet connection, xp-sp2, and neither has gone through the genuine
>> windows activation process
>>
> You are using the same CD key on machine 2 that you used on machine 1?
>
>
> --
> Conor
>
> If Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened
> rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic
> music.