Automatic Windows Update (Security Center)

[Hya]

I can disable Windows Update ?

{{{ this item is important in windows xp sp3 ? }}} 

[Lisandro]

Why would you disable it?
You can, but why do you want to do so?

[Hya]

because, slow down my computer when checking/downloading updates / and slow down my internet speed!

also my windows is sp3... this is updated ?

[Lisandro]

Yes, Windows XP is on SP3.
You can configure the time you want to do this check and if you want it just to check and warn or download and install...

[Hya]

ok 

[MikeBCda]

You can also do what I do, simply disable auto-updates and check the MS Update page.  That still works fine even with auto-updates turned off.

I agree, on my system too the check for updates slows things down considerably.  But what the heck, I know when Patch Tuesday is.  And if anything's critical enough that MS releases it off-schedule, you'll certainly hear about that here and many other places.

[YoKenny]

You can also do what I do, simply disable auto-updates and check the MS Update page.  That still works fine even with auto-updates turned off.

I agree, on my system too the check for updates slows things down considerably.  But what the heck, I know when Patch Tuesday is.  And if anything's critical enough that MS releases it off-schedule, you'll certainly hear about that here and many other places.

Mike, a Celeron 2.2ghz with only 256 meg RAM running XP-Home SP3 is bound to be slow.

You should get at least another 256MB RAM or preferably 512MB RAM.

Check out crucial.com for RAM memory needs:
http://www.crucial.com

My old 2.4GHZ P4 only has 512MB RAM and it is about 1/2 as fast as my 2.8GHZ P4 system.