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Not installing any updates is not a good idea at all. Since the software/device will be vulnerable for any security issues. However, disabling update and installing it later is another story. Of course, updates should be installed as promptly as possible especially if it is a critical update. Mozilla Firefox has an auto-update feature, this feature though is customizable you can disable auto-update and enable later if you need to install updates. How to disable and enable auto-update in Mozilla Firefox? For Windows OS 64 bit, open an elevated command prompt. Elevated command prompt or admin command prompt is needed when modifying features that requires admin access. At the elevated command prompt, browse or change directory to where Mozilla is installed. Default location would  be: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox Search for mozilla.cfg, and open it with your preferred text editor. Or simply type: notepad mozilla.cfg this will open the config file. Depending on what has been set in...

Deploying a shortcut link, file or folders can easily be done via group policy preferences. Or it can also be done using PowerShell as logon or start up script. A one liner code snippet to deploy a file, a shortcut links or a folder to user’s desktop. Copy a file: copy-item "\\shared_folder\files_2be_copied.txt" "c:\users\public\desktop" Copy a shortcut link to user desktop: copy-item "\\shared_folder\shortcut_file_2be_copied.lnk" "c:\users\public\desktop" If a link or shortcut which is a network path, just need to ensure that the permissions is set correctly or else the link will be deployed but still unable to access due to permission issue.   Copy a folder: copy-item "\\shared_folder\folder_2be_copied" "c:\users\public\desktop" -Container -Recurse Above command will copy the whole folder to the user's computer, if space is an issue then a shortcut to the folder would be desirable. ...