Don't Ask Again

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Don't Ask Again

I don't want iTunes 10.
I don't want to be asked every day if I want to upgrade.
I Uninstalled Apple Software Update.
Never use ASU and have had it there just to check for updates.
When I want an update, I manually grab standalone installer.

So telling iTunes "thanks but no thanks" is reather lame, useless, it doesn't listen.

Everything purrs and works fine, just this. And Windows 7 has been rock solid. I think just Apple doesn't quite get Windows 7 or that not everyone wants their updates. Some of us like to wait for problems to roll it and get fixed in 10.1 or something.

Mac Pro 9800GTX 10.6.4 /, Windows 7, IE9 Core-i7 3.2GHz / GTX 260 / 10K VelociRaptors

Posted on Sep 16, 2010 4:16 PM

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The hatter Author

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Dec 16, 2010 4:27 AM in response to The hatter

There are still problems with iTunes 10.1.1 with wait states, with hanging, and as a result will stop playing at the end of one video.

When there was an update, instead of knowing to download the 64-bit version it downloaded and wanted to install the 32-bit version.

This is the type of behavior of an untested program and update process.

And rolling back means restoring media files that were modified and touched by 10.1 too, so even the data is altered.

iTunes 10 is the only application I've run into on Windows that results in repeatable wait states and locked thread.

Attempts to rectify the problem didn't work. Silly me for thinking that now with 10.1.1 (evcen though no technical release note addresses the possibility of a wait chain happening, I figured someone in a lab would, and fix it).

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