A customer has requested the ability to disable autoupdate pre-install, via a .cfg file, regkey, group policy, etc. for large-scale deployment of the JRE:

> Hi Paul, thanks for the reply. We have around 1500 machines and when the
> > Java update popup appears in the sys tray, the machine starts to run out
of
> > virtual memory. Once Java is updated or uninstalled, its fine.
> >
> > As a temp measure, is there a way to turn off Java updates va Group Policy
> > or a reg file maybe?
> >
> > Hopefully once version 12 is out, we can push that out via MSI and that
> > should sort the problem.
> >
> > If you have any tips on managing the Java software on machines, maybe a
> > custom adm file for group policy, that would be good. I wonder if there is
a
> > service we can run here to update them like we do for anti virus?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > James
> >