I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:

How to Turn Off Automatic Updates

• Click Start , click Control Panel , and then double-click System.
• Click the Automatic Updates tab, and then click Turn off automatic updating. I want to update my computer manually.

The problem I am having is that the options my Automatic Updates window are all grayed out. It is set to "automatic", and it won't let me change anything. I understand this is controlled somewhere in the policies, but I can't find anything about auto updates in any of the policies screens. I also can't find anything in the Registry that looks like it controls this.

I am plagued by the automatic updates coming in and requiring me to rebooot at the most inopportune times. I've gone to services and disabled the automatic updates service, to prevent these updates from coming in, but I still can't get this automatic updates window to allow me to make changes there. I've also gone into Windows Security Center and set automatic updates to "off". I'd really prefer to set the updates to something like "notify me", rather than simply killing all updates by disabling the service and turning off updates.

Can anyone tell me how to un-disable this disabling of automatic updates choices, so I can make my own choices?

thanks

You need to be the system administrator to be able to change those settings.
The path i get to the Automatic Updates is:
Start -> Control Panel -> Security Centre -> Automatic updates -> then pick your option. I am the system administrator so i can see all of the options.

Even then i have heard that M$ has installed some update that automatically changes it back to AUTOMATIC (I have read a few ppl saying this has happend to them)

Welcome to the site bmeyette

Microsoft keeps eye on a illegal users its only key for Microsoft to know who is playing with illegal copy of Windows.

why would you want to turn automatic updates anyway?

So that if you are using a non-legit copy of Windows, you are not found out!

Thats why you go admin tools -> services -> automatic updates and set the service to disabled

Why turn off updates? Because automatic updates often reboot the PC. You will lose any unsaved work, any settings you have changed, and may cause other problems. For example, if PhotoShop is running and the automatic update reboots the PC, you will lose all custom settings in PhotoShop - even ones that were saved.

Yes and its confirmed the idiots ARE DOING THIS!!

http://www.computerworld.com/action/...intsrc=hm_list

The best you can do is TOTALLY SHUT DOWN when your not using your computer!