Getting Rid of Apple Software Update

I had to load Quicktime on my PC for one reason or another in the past few months. It's not generally a package I load, but, apparently I needed it for some reason. I of course did the extra legwork to find the Quicktime installer that didn't include iTunes, as I also don't have any use for iTunes. In the past few weeks this really annoying dialog started popping up periodically hawking not only some new QuickTime build, but also iTunes.

I have been clicking Quit for weeks now and it's been getting old. I hadn't really invested the time to figure out where this annoying application was launching itself from, but, tonight I stumbled upon the answer by accident. Check your scheduled tasks - apparently Apple took the liberty of installing a job that runs this update application of theirs. I deleted the job - hopefully it doesn't come back and hopefully I don't see this dialog anymore:

Posted Friday, May 09 2008 10:17 PM by Brian Desmond | 4 Comments
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#1 re: Getting Rid of Apple Software Update

Saturday, July 26 2008 7:01 AM by db209_2000

Thank you! Now I finally know how this wretched software got onto my PC. I don't have an I-Pod, therefore I don't want I-Tunes screwing up my MP3 collection like I've heard about from everyone I know.

I would go a step further and just remove the updater through: Control Panel - Add or Remove Problems (oops, I meant Programs :)

#2 re: Getting Rid of Apple Software Update

Friday, December 26 2008 6:45 PM by Ken

I have Quicktime 7.5 without I tunes and unchecked the enable box for the apple software updates in scheduled tasks and it stopped my computer from booting back up from sleep mode.

I then deleted Apple software updates in add and remove programs and had the same problem.

After several restore pts., I was forced to repair and re-install the update program to fix my re booting problem.

I'd like to get rid of it, but not at the expense of messing up my computer. Win. xp pro, sp2.

Any help is appreciated.