Comments on: Disabling Apple Software Update items

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:28:52 +0000

Not forced on you? Give me a break, that’s so irrelevant. I’ve never seen a virus or adware do it any worse than what Apple’s doing. If you don’t accept the “update” pops up frequently until you do.

Anyhow they aren’t the only ones. Any time you have this or another similar problem just google a solution to disable it. Then you don’t need to worry anymore.

By: tenorsax

tenorsax — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:07:19 +0000

Jarod: What kind of idiot are you? Nobody cares whether you use mac or windows except dung-suckers like you.
“..nothing was forced upon anyone?” Were you born yesterday? Every OS and software out there puts undesirable crap on your pc without your knowledge. Then when someone asks for solutions you whine “I’m Mac and you’re Windows ooooh”

By: Dan Cunningham

Dan Cunningham — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:25:39 +0000

Actually, I have to disagree here a bit. Macs are gaining massive market share – my primary home machine is a Mac, and I love it.

HOWEVER! I still think Apple made a bad move with forcing this down…

Just my 2 cents, Dan

By: aztut

aztut — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:21:44 +0000

Man, you sound like a guy with anger issues. No need for name-calling and insults-everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Plus, if Macs were so great everyone would have one, instead of vise-versa!

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:45:32 +0000

That’s not Apple Software Update, that’s the built-in mechanism within Quicktime. You need to open up Quicktime, then Preferences. Under Update, untick “Automatically check for new version” and click Apply.

Then you need to copy and deploy the file:

For Vista machines:

C:\Users\\AppData\LocalLow\Apple Computer\QuickTime\QuickTime.qtp

For XP machines (I think):

C:\Documents And Settings\Local Settings\Application Data\Apple Computer\QuickTime\QuickTime.qtp

This will prevent the update check from happening on the other machines.

Dan