Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Disable Automatic updates in Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer 5 and higher have the ability to automatically check for updates. Iyou dont want this to be done for whatever reason then this tweak help you.



Navigate to:

HCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main


Create or modify the DWORD value called "NoUpdateCheck " and set it to 1 to disable the update check, or to 0 to enable it.

Just restart Internet Explorer for the change to take effect

Enable/Disable IE Download Notification

This setting is used to enable/disable download completion notification in Internet Explorer. The following can be useful if the checkboxnext to ?Close this dialog box?? is disabled and cannot be manually un-checked.



Navigate to:

HCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main


Create or modify the String Value called NotifyDownloadComplete and set it to ?yes? or ?no?, without quotes, according to what you want. Restart for the change to take effect.