How to stop Win Update updating CCC?

[watercooled]

Does anyone know how I can prevent automatic updates from updating CCC? It's annoying because I was browsing the web when an update confirmation box (I have it set to notify before downloading) popped up asking if it was OK to download an update so I clicked OK thinking it was just another Defender update or something then a bit later the screen flashed to low resolution then back to normal except all my desktop icons were messed up out of the groups I had them in. I though fair enough it's updated CCC to this month's version until I realised it's the 1st so I went and checked and it had installed 9.7!!! I already had 9.9 installed so I don't see the point in this. On a side note, when I update GPU drivers it messes with desktop icons because of the way it refreshes the screen or whatever but it's a pain getting my icons back where they were (I have loads of them in groups) after the update - is there a way to keep them where they are?
Thanks!

[aidanjt]

Yes, check which updates are going to be applied before blindly clicking 'Ok'.

[watercooled]

Yeah I know I should really (It's one of the reasons I disabled auto update in the first place) but it's a pain checking nearly every day only to find it's another Defender update. I thought there might have been a way to remove it from the list of things to update...

[joel_spencer]

Well you switch auto update to alert me but don't download and install updates that way every so often (once a month) you can choose what to get - also it doesn't usually offer software updates anyway.

[watercooled]

Yeah that's what I have it on anyway but like I said it popped up to ask me and I accepted thinking it was just a definition update. As I said I thought there might have been a way to remove CCC from the list of things auto updates updates.

[kalniel]

It shouldn't auto update - it's an optional update rather than critical. My computer only automatically applies critical updates (which includes defender definitions I think). It should also be able to download/install said updates without needing to pop up a message.

As for grouping icons, there's a free tool from Stardock I think that allows you to do that.

http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/