This one is all over the internet under win8, not just Lenovo.
The Java Auto Update cannot be disabled – every time you uncheck the “automatically check for updates” box
(screenshot from winXP on which it works) it comes back and the stupid Java s/w tries to go online every time you start the machine.
The suggested solution all over the net is to run the Control Panel applet as Administrator (for some reason win8 runs the CP applets under some lower privilege, even though the user (me) is an Administrator) and uncheck the checkbox there, but this doesn’t work…
This is a major hassle if using the machine with expensive internet connectivity e.g. a satellite phone. What is worse is that it results in the satphone connection taking a long time, because the Java check is very slow. Not only is there DNS but also a fair bit of data gets transferred.
Maybe there is a way to do a startup batch script which unchecks that checkbox when the machine starts up?
Another approach would be to block the Java online operations with an entry in LMHOSTS pointing to 127.0.0.0 or whatever 
Or maybe the windows firewall?
Just disable the Java update service. On Windows 8, this is accomplished via the “Startup” page in the task manager. You have to elevate it to admin privileges in order to change system wide settings. I believe the Win 8 task manager has an elevation option in the menu bar somewhere. The service you want to disable is called “Java™ Platform SE Auto Updater”.
PS: “disable the service” means not disable the update inside the service (the control panel you showed) but disable the service altogether so that Windows won’t load it at startup. This is accomplished via the task manager.
That service is already disabled…
Cant it be removed direct from the registry in these two locations?
•HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
•HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
