decision part 53 outputs a signal causing the controller 42 to inhibit updating of control information and a signal causing the ui equipment 20 to provide a display to indicate that updating of control information is inhibited once the information acquisition part 52 has acquired control information and setup information from the information servers 12 a 12 b the updating part 54 updates the control information and configuration information stored in the control setup storage part 56 according to the control information and the setup information stored in e g the buffering part 60 and the configuration information stored in the configuration storage part 58 for example when the image forming apparatus 10 is rebooted it is determined whether new control information and new setup information have been acquired if so the updating program 50 is adapted to serve as a boot program that triggers updating according to the acquired information without operating in the normal operation mode upon the rebooting thereby operation in the normal operation mode is initiated by rebooting after the updating fig5 is a flowchart illustrating a process s 10 that the image forming apparatus 10 performs to acquire control information using the updating program 50 as can be seen in.