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   micky to a.campanella@att.net   
   Re: Pesy repetitive " Automatic Update R   
   17 Jan 14 05:42:25   
   
   From: NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com   
      
   On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:52:28 -0400, "Angelo Campanella"   
    wrote:   
      
   >In the last week or two, my ThinkPad (built in 2005 with Windows XP) has all   
   >of a sudden does this more than once a day. I changed the setting to stop   
   >automatic restart (minutes countdown over several minutes to an unavoidable   
   >restart). But now an enunciator pop-up still occurs, and I can't relegate it   
   >to background. I eventually clear my many programs in use, and allow it. But   
   >I CANNOT understand why it updates so very frequently. Any explanation and   
   >how do I cut it back to once every few days?   
      
   I noticed one popular program, Adobe mayibe,  in my Scheduler, set to   
   check for updates every 5 minutes!!!    How egocentric they are.   
      
   I changed it to once a week, although once a month would suit me, and   
   for some reason my Dell 9600 with XP Pro starts up every morning without   
   my doing anything.  I suppose that problem is also in the Scheduler.   
      
   It wasn't the only program set to run once an hour or more.   
      
   P&M   
   >   
   >I'm beginning to suspect that the NSA is watching me by hijacking the update   
   >protocol to collect frequent data....   
   >   
   >Ange   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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