diff --git a/wp-admin/includes/schema.php b/wp-admin/includes/schema.php
index 27819b3e52..e6910a1e71 100644
--- a/wp-admin/includes/schema.php
+++ b/wp-admin/includes/schema.php
@@ -246,7 +246,6 @@ function populate_options() {
 	// 1.5
 	'default_email_category' => 1,
 	'recently_edited' => '',
-	'use_linksupdate' => 0,
 	'template' => WP_DEFAULT_THEME,
 	'stylesheet' => WP_DEFAULT_THEME,
 	'comment_whitelist' => 1,
@@ -355,7 +354,7 @@ function populate_options() {
 
 	// Delete unused options
 	$unusedoptions = array ('blodotgsping_url', 'bodyterminator', 'emailtestonly', 'phoneemail_separator', 'smilies_directory', 'subjectprefix', 'use_bbcode', 'use_blodotgsping', 'use_phoneemail', 'use_quicktags', 'use_weblogsping', 'weblogs_cache_file', 'use_preview', 'use_htmltrans', 'smilies_directory', 'fileupload_allowedusers', 'use_phoneemail', 'default_post_status', 'default_post_category', 'archive_mode', 'time_difference', 'links_minadminlevel', 'links_use_adminlevels', 'links_rating_type', 'links_rating_char', 'links_rating_ignore_zero', 'links_rating_single_image', 'links_rating_image0', 'links_rating_image1', 'links_rating_image2', 'links_rating_image3', 'links_rating_image4', 'links_rating_image5', 'links_rating_image6', 'links_rating_image7', 'links_rating_image8', 'links_rating_image9', 'weblogs_cacheminutes', 'comment_allowed_tags', 'search_engine_friendly_urls', 'default_geourl_lat', 'default_geourl_lon', 'use_default_geourl', 'weblogs_xml_url', 'new_users_can_blog', '_wpnonce', '_wp_http_referer', 'Update', 'action', 'rich_editing', 'autosave_interval', 'deactivated_plugins', 'can_compress_scripts',
-		'page_uris', 'update_core', 'update_plugins', 'update_themes', 'doing_cron', 'random_seed', 'rss_excerpt_length', 'secret');
+		'page_uris', 'update_core', 'update_plugins', 'update_themes', 'doing_cron', 'random_seed', 'rss_excerpt_length', 'secret', 'use_linksupdate');
 	foreach ($unusedoptions as $option)
 		delete_option($option);
 
diff --git a/wp-admin/options-misc.php b/wp-admin/options-misc.php
index 6ef74ffeeb..d4c19a5b1e 100644
--- a/wp-admin/options-misc.php
+++ b/wp-admin/options-misc.php
@@ -27,14 +27,6 @@ include('admin-header.php');
 <?php settings_fields('misc'); ?>
 
 <table class="form-table">
-<tr>
-<th scope="row" class="th-full">
-<label for="use_linksupdate">
-<input name="use_linksupdate" type="checkbox" id="use_linksupdate" value="1"<?php checked('1', get_option('use_linksupdate')); ?> />
-<?php _e('Track links&#8217; update times') ?>
-</label>
-</th>
-</tr>
 <?php do_settings_fields('misc', 'default'); ?>
 </table>
 
diff --git a/wp-admin/options.php b/wp-admin/options.php
index ef87cad1a2..6e9023a4ad 100644
--- a/wp-admin/options.php
+++ b/wp-admin/options.php
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ if ( is_multisite() && !is_super_admin() && 'update' != $action )
 $whitelist_options = array(
 	'general' => array( 'blogname', 'blogdescription', 'gmt_offset', 'date_format', 'time_format', 'start_of_week', 'timezone_string' ),
 	'discussion' => array( 'default_pingback_flag', 'default_ping_status', 'default_comment_status', 'comments_notify', 'moderation_notify', 'comment_moderation', 'require_name_email', 'comment_whitelist', 'comment_max_links', 'moderation_keys', 'blacklist_keys', 'show_avatars', 'avatar_rating', 'avatar_default', 'close_comments_for_old_posts', 'close_comments_days_old', 'thread_comments', 'thread_comments_depth', 'page_comments', 'comments_per_page', 'default_comments_page', 'comment_order', 'comment_registration' ),
-	'misc' => array( 'use_linksupdate' ),
+	'misc' => array( '' ),
 	'media' => array( 'thumbnail_size_w', 'thumbnail_size_h', 'thumbnail_crop', 'medium_size_w', 'medium_size_h', 'large_size_w', 'large_size_h', 'image_default_size', 'image_default_align', 'image_default_link_type', 'embed_autourls', 'embed_size_w', 'embed_size_h', 'uploads_use_yearmonth_folders', 'upload_path', 'upload_url_path' ),
 	'privacy' => array( 'blog_public' ),
 	'reading' => array( 'posts_per_page', 'posts_per_rss', 'rss_use_excerpt', 'blog_charset', 'show_on_front', 'page_on_front', 'page_for_posts' ),
diff --git a/wp-admin/update-links.php b/wp-admin/update-links.php
deleted file mode 100644
index f7f5c52733..0000000000
--- a/wp-admin/update-links.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,56 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-/**
- * Send blog links to pingomatic.com to update.
- *
- * You can disable this feature by deleting the option 'use_linksupdate' or
- * setting the option to false. If no links exist, then no links are sent.
- *
- * Snoopy is included, but is not used. Fsockopen() is used instead to send link
- * URLs.
- *
- * @package WordPress
- * @subpackage Administration
- */
-
-/** Load WordPress Bootstrap */
-require_once('../wp-load.php');
-
-if ( !get_option('use_linksupdate') )
-	wp_die(__('Feature disabled.'));
-
-$link_uris = $wpdb->get_col("SELECT link_url FROM $wpdb->links");
-
-if ( !$link_uris )
-	wp_die(__('No links'));
-
-$link_uris = urlencode( join( $link_uris, "\n" ) );
-
-$query_string = "uris=$link_uris";
-
-$options = array();
-$options['timeout'] = 30;
-$options['body'] = $query_string;
-
-$options['headers'] = array(
-	'content-type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset='.get_option('blog_charset'),
-	'content-length' => strlen( $query_string ),
-);
-
-$response = wp_remote_get('http://api.pingomatic.com/updated-batch/', $options);
-
-if ( is_wp_error( $response ) )
-	wp_die(__('Request Failed.'));
-
-if ( $response['response']['code'] != 200 )
-	wp_die(__('Request Failed.'));
-
-$body = str_replace(array("\r\n", "\r"), "\n", $response['body']);
-$returns = explode("\n", $body);
-
-foreach ($returns as $return) {
-	$time = substr($return, 0, 19);
-	$uri = preg_replace('/(.*?) | (.*?)/', '$2', $return);
-	$wpdb->update( $wpdb->links, array('link_updated' => $time), array('link_url' => $uri) );
-}
-
-?>