Drupal disable a Views view programatically in an update hook

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/**
 * Disable the media browser view.
 */
function mymodule_update_7001() {
  $view = views_get_view('media_default'); // media_default is the machine name of the view.
  if (!empty($view)) {
    ctools_include('export');
    ctools_export_crud_set_status('views_view', $view, TRUE);
  }
}