Don't want to install software update when I restart

I'm not interested in upgrading to Yosemite from Mavericks. I must have clicked on the wrong button and downloaded new software, because my mid 2009 MacBook Pro says it's ready to install new software when I restart. How can I undue this so that when I restart I don't install the software waiting to be installed? Thanks.

Right after you restart the computer by ready to hit COMMAND-Q as soon as you see the installer appear. If it hasn't already started in the background you may get out before it starts the installation. If not, then welcome to Yosemite. Really, it's not that bad.

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Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Repair
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Hi I was wondering if someone could help me with this current issue. Just a few hours ago I finished reinstalling Mac OS X Snow Leopard in my MacBook Pro. I performed a clean installation as part of a yearly spring cleaning that I do on all my systems to keep them optimized. So there was I downloading some software updates which included the combo update of OSX 10.6.8 and others. The updates finished downloading and the system logged out to install the updates, when the updates finished installing my MacBook proceeded by logging out into a blue screen and show a gray spinner similar to the one seen when you start your Mac. Here's the problem after 2 hours the system is showing the spinner and the blue screen, I think that my computer has just hanged in the reboot process.
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Kappy wrote:
Force a shutdown. Do not restart yet, but first do the following:
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Next, boot into Safe Mode then restart normally.
Hi Kappy,
Checked the hard drive after forcing a shutdown and booting from my Snow Leopard Installer USB Key and the status of the HDD says "Verified". I ran the repair and the volume was repaired successfully. Clicked on "Verify Disk" and it says "Macintosh HD appears to be OK". So I ran a second repair and again no errors were reported.
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Yes , they need a reboot and reboot is happening automatically. I believe, once reboot is done, other patches should take over with installation. I don't see any information for another updates that are part of same software group. For these 2 succefully
installed updates log has below that indicates they reboot and finish.
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1. Update (Missing): Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2862330) (35dcb297-873a-45af-bb19-e8b18aedd5bb, 202) WUAHandler 2/5/2014 8:09:02 AM 2760 (0x0AC8)
2. Update (Missing): Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2834140) (88152097-0294-4098-b27c-d2fd479e9831, 202) WUAHandler 2/5/2014 8:09:03 AM 2760 (0x0AC8)
Update 1 (35dcb297-873a-45af-bb19-e8b18aedd5bb) finished installing (0x00000000), Reboot Required? Yes WUAHandler 2/5/2014 8:09:06 AM 2348 (0x092C)
Update 2 (88152097-0294-4098-b27c-d2fd479e9831) finished installing (0x00000000), Reboot Required? Yes WUAHandler 2/5/2014 8:09:09 AM 356 (0x0164)
Update (35dcb297-873a-45af-bb19-e8b18aedd5bb) has finished the post reboot operation. HResult: 0x00000000. WUAHandler 2/5/2014 8:10:46 AM 2152 (0x0868)
Update (88152097-0294-4098-b27c-d2fd479e9831) has finished the post reboot operation. HResult: 0x00000000. WUAHandler 2/5/2014 8:10:46 AM 2152 (0x0868)
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First, empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. Then reboot. That will temporarily free up some space.
According to Apple documentation, you need at least 9 GB of available space on the startup volume (as shown in the Finder Info window) for normal operation. You also need enough space left over to allow for growth of your data. There is little or no performance advantage to having more available space than the minimum Apple recommends. Available storage space that you'll never use is wasted space.
If you're using Time Machine to back up a portable Mac, some of the available space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of files you've recently deleted. The space occupied by local snapshots is reported as available by the Finder, and should be considered as such. In the Storage display of System Information, local snapshots are shown as "Backups." The snapshots are automatically deleted when they expire or when free space falls below a certain level. You ordinarily don't need to, and should not, delete local snapshots yourself.
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Proceed further only if the problem hasn't been solved.
ODS can't see the whole filesystem when you run it just by double-clicking; it only sees files that you have permission to read. To see everything, you have to run it as root.
Back up all data now.
Install ODS in the Applications folder as usual. Quit it if it's running.
Triple-click the line of text below to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
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☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
The application window will open, eventually showing all files in all folders. It may take some minutes for ODS to list all the files.
I don't recommend that you make a habit of doing this. Don't delete anything while running ODS as root. If something needs to be deleted, make sure you know what it is and how it got there, and then delete it by other, safer, means.
When you're done with ODS, quit it and also quit Terminal.

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