If your Drupal 6 administration page returned blank page or the page is very slow, your site's server might have a problem to access drupal.org to check for available update for your Drupal 6 installation. Usually, the Drupal's Update Status module will check for theme and modules updates once in a day, depending on how you configure cronjob for Drupal. If updates cannot be performed, Drupal will check for updates every time you access Drupal's administration page.

This post will show you on how to disable Drupal 6 Update Status module using phpMyAdmin (I assume you use MySQL for your Drupal installation) even if you cannot access the module administration section of Drupal. This will enables you to access the administration page until the problem of your site's server cannot access drupal.org is solved.

WARNING! Make sure you've backed up your Drupal database before proceeding. This method involves modifying Drupal database directly, so there might be a chance that your Drupal database get corrupted.

First, open phpMyAdmin on your hosting control panel. Your hosting provider should provide you with phpMyAdmin via CPanel or DirectAdmin. Login with the MySQL username and password that you use for your Drupal installation. If you forgot the password, browse to /sites/default and edit the file settings.php. Find the line with $db_url.

The format should be like this:
$db_url = 'mysql://'MySQL username':'MySQL password'@'MySQL server address'/'MySQL database name'';

Next, select the database name for your Drupal installation from the left site of the panel (1).

Select the 'system' table (2).

Click browse (3) on the right side panel of phpMyAdmin.

Under the 'filename' column, find 'modules/update/update.module' (4). Usually it is on the second page (5). Then, click the edit icon (6) on 'modules/update/update.module' row.

On the next page, set the value for 'status' and 'bootstrap' to 0 (7). If you have the entry for 'throttle', also set it to 0. Make sure 'Save' is selected (8) and click 'Go' (9) to save.

You've successfully disable the Update Status module. Hope you can successfully access the administration page back.

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