WINXP SP2 block Automatic Update

I was hoping anybody has an idea. I want to block auto update . Microsoft
has a blocker tool which run from a command line. The problem is it requires
a machine name and the variable don't wark in Zenworks. Also it is just a
registry entry, so I tried to have the entry loaded but that seems to fail
also. Any ideas.

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