Comments on: Disabling Apple Software Update items

By: kat

kat — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:43:49 +0000

Good for one machine. As others have replied before you, not so good if you need to manage hundreds of machines on a corporate network.

As a sysdamin, I know:
- some users aren’t capable of turning it off (freakout, what’s this thing!)
- having it appear will tick off the users who are more comfortable with computers (why aren’t you keeping up to date?)

As a sysadmin, you can’t let people install things willy nilly, and you can’t even let if happen yourself (because of other dependencies, testing, unwanted “features”). Users don’t get this, and that’s fine, because that’s the sysadmin’s problem. This also means it’s best if it doesn’t bug users in the first place. Don’t even give users a reason to get upset.

(currently researching whether Apple puts the scheduled tasks back, and if there’s a way to disable the updates, period – not just ignore the update that’s there).

By: jeff

jeff — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 03:36:27 +0000

Dude just shut up!! Yah the mac OS is superior to windows but who really cares?? It’s only because it’s UNIX based. Linux can kick the shit out of windows AND mac!

I use a mac, but what is it with other mac people getting so offended when someone calls them an idiot? I mean I thought the entire mac user base was based on the fact that people don’t know how to do simple things with their computers like turning them on.

By: goat

goat — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:48:15 +0000

First off the friggin’ apple update box, drives me insane using a box, for a media computer for my tv and I cannot stand that shit, finally removed everything apple, and added all *apple* as 127.0.0.1 to my hosts file.

and for you idiots blathering about apple vs. windows shut up I have iMac’s, mac servers, windows servers, windows boxes, and linux servers, laptops and boxes.

and iMac’s / Macbook pro’s and their servers are over priced nice running hardware, hell it’s packed with intel just like my windows desktop – just shut up and stick to the topic as the updates for apple crap on windows are quite FUCKING annoying

By: does it matter?

does it matter? — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:08:51 +0000

Well after wading through myriads of useless banter about MS and Apple, which I really couldn’t give a crap about opinions on lol, I thank you to those that actually commented about the reason this original page was here, to help those of us turn off the updater.

Really guys, does every conversation on the internet have to end up being flame wars about who’s better than what? Just answer the questions, comment on the fact that this was a very helpful page and move on already :P

BTW, for anyone that has already come here and hasn’t waded through the posts, and if you happen to start at the bottom, the easiest way to do this without any editing of the registry is to turn it off in the Scheduled Tasks in your Control Panel. Thanks for that tip guys :)

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.