I have my auto update set to download but let me pick what to install. For the last four days it's been busy downloading satan's program 2(SP2). I don't want it. Based on my first go round with sp2, it's not for me. I let it download for one simple reason. To see if it will stop pestering me to get it. Question #1> Now will it stop bugging me to get it? Question #2> Where did it put it on my drive? Question #3> (It is NOT installed)Can I safely remove it? Please and Thank You... I may be crazy, but I'm not stupid...

Hi setishock, I thought you're pretty determined not to ever play with SP2 again:-) Anyway, why not just disable auto update? It seems (that is, to me) that Microsoft no longer have anything to let you pick other than SP2. One of my friend's machine hardly ever visited WU. When she tried it for the first time, SP2 was waiting! i_XpUser

You should be able to say "No and don't remind me again" when it's downloaded. I had a similar experience (which ended just minutes ago): I have auto update off at the moment but last night went to Windows Update manually in order to install the JPG of death patches. It offered SP2, which I declined choosing instead to do a custom update and selected just the ones I wanted which it duly installed. After I rebooted I noticed that my system was busy so I checked processes and discovered "update.exe" beavering away. Now there is a trojan of that name so I killed it, locked internet access in my firewall and went to bed intending to sort it out later. Today I rebooted, UPDATE.exe reappeared and off went the dataflow again. After some digging I came to the conclusion that it was busy downloading SP2, which I had declined in the updates list. Not doing it quietly either - it hogged all my bandwidth for half an hour or so). During the download I enables auto update and got the normal system tray icon to appear showing "Downloading Updates xx% complete" but it would not, unlike normally, allow me to pause the download. When it finally completed it offered the update for installation, which I rejected, but it's still sitting there on my HD somewhere wasting space and although I have some idea where it is (from file dates and sizes) I can't be sure what its safe to delete. Frankly I feel somewhat pissed at MS who have foisted on me an update that I don't want at the moment and during the d/l allowed me no safe way of stopping it. YOU WILL INSTALL SP2 OR WE WILL DO IT FOR YOU - SO THERE!!!