Manual updates without restore

[nloding]

I'm new here, so I hope is the forum to post to. If not, point me in the right direction!

Here's what I've got -- I've got a tech CD that's been put together for my job -- we do service on PC's and constantly find ourselves going to Windows Update, and got sick of it. So we combined all the updates into one batch file, and it works brilliantly except for one thing -- they all set a restore point.

We have downloaded all the updates post-SP2, and have command line switches that force them to run silently and whatnot, but what we would really like is to disable the system restore they do as well, without turning off the system restore for the entire system.

Is there a command line switch for the updates that does this? Or is it easier to have the system process a .reg file that disables system restore at the front end, then have the opposite at the end of the batch file? If system restore is disabled, will the manual windows updates still create a restore point?

Any help is much appreciated. After running our update CD, we end up with 1.5gb of restore points -- a lot of wasted space!

Thanks!

--Nathan

[chilifrei64]

you could just add a net stop srservice after the first update is applied (that way a system restore point is made before the first update) then run net start srservice after the last update

If you are running these as a batch.. this would be easiest.