Block specific windows update hotfix

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Published on 2010-05-27T13:05:55Z Indexed on 2010/05/27 13:12 UTC
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Hello,

I'd like to let windows auto update enabled, but block a specific patch that causes us problems from being installed.

Is that possible? Anyone knows how to do that?

Thanks

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