Wow i feel stupid. Didn't even think to try the standard things. Thx. Time to msconfig this laptop to "usable" state. edit: Parent comment flagged ? Are we

Wow i feel stupid. Didn't even think to try the standard things. Thx. Time to msconfig this laptop to "usable" state. edit: Parent comment flagged ? Are we on "Anti-hacker Non-news" ? Anyway; Start-> type "services" (or "msiconfig" for more options, basically the same as winXP) and you can turn off "windows Update" there. Don't forget to turn it on every once in a while, especially if you use public networks. update: There's also a thing called "Background Intelligent Something", that is the thing doing the actual downloads. Seems it continued downloading even without the update service running. Said service looks mildly important, but still it had to die.