Intuit Update Service

" snipped-for-privacy@nospam.fake" wrote in news:WKkDn.110619$iL1.59620 @newsfe24.iad:

There probably is a program always running checking it. I can't find it with task manager on my vista system, but maybe you can on yours.

It's IntuitUpdateService.exe. You have to click "Show processes from all users" to see it in Task Manager.

TurboTax is a likely suspect. Select Online -> Updater Preferences and change "Automatically Download Updates" to "Ask me before getting updates."

There may also be a Quicken auto-update preference but I can't find it.

You can shut it down usung Task Manager. You can also keep it from starting by unchecking IntuitUpdateService under the Services tab of msconfig. I have no idea whether or not either of these actions has any adverse consequences.

Jerry

Thank you both. Much appreciated.

"Jerry Boyle" wrote in news:hrle37$vl4$ snipped-for-privacy@news.eternal- september.org:

I didn't look to see whether that was checked. You're right, it is running on my machine. Thankfully the machine is powerful enough ...

"Jerry Boyle" wrote

I agree, it's probably not Quicken that initiates it. I'm running Q2008 on Win XP, but have never run Turbo Tax on this machine. I see no "Intuit Update Service" running.

I was just about to change my mind and blame it on Quicken when I found this:

Interesting. I use another tax product from Intuit called ProSeries, which does not install "Intuit Update Service" (or anything similar) that I can tell.