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Solve : critical update loop?

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Hello all, thru your help I recently SOLVED a capacity problem but might have inadvertently created another.....I keep getting an automatic update from MS and download it......a minute later the same update appears again.....I've gone to MS website and checked my past downloads and have sucessfully downloaded this particular update 17 times......cannot get out of this update loop......cannot find a solution on MS's FAQ....what's happening? My OS is 2000 pro.control panel ...click the automatic updates.........chose manual downloads.........and go to the run box type  msconfig in it ......click the  services tab and untick the  automatic updates boxI went to control panel and chose manual.....went to run box and typed in msconfig.... an error message appeared: cannot find the file msconfig (or one of its components) make sure the path and filename are correct and that all REQUIRED libraries are available.....I deleted a number of program files several days ago trying to SOLVE another problem of capacity; could I have deleted something inadvertently that I shouldn't; that might CONTRIBUTE to this problem and if so, is there any way I can review what I deleted and reinstall any essential program?No "msconfig" in Win2k.Unless its downloaded?>.try this instead>Start, Settings, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, then Services And  disabled windows updates.......Merlin_2 and Computer_Commando, Problem solved....Was able to get a free audience with MS.....Apparently there was a glitch in downloading IE 6 SP 1...Had to reinstall it and all subsequent updates.....Working fine.....Thanks for your help! Great site!!



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