How do I disable updates FOREVER!

Andrei Mincov 0

Hi,

I love my N++ 6.9.2 (the last version with obsolete icon).

I install it with the setting that leaves automatic updates uncheked.

But every now and then (now it’s multiple times a week), I see that it’s getting updated without my permission. I turn it on – and see the new version. So I have to exit and reinstall 6.9.2 again.

Is there ANY way to permanently disable any and all updates of Notepad++?

PeterJones

@Andrei-Mincov-0,

I love my N++ 6.9.2 (the last version with obsolete icon).

To each their own.

I install it with the setting that leaves automatic updates uncheked.

Unfortunately, v6.9.2’s preferences dialog doesn’t show the automatic-updates status, so we cannot easily confirm that it’s still in that state. If you look at your config.xml (it would be in %AppData%\Notepad++\config.xml if v6.9.2-installed uses AppData by default, otherwise in your portable directory if you’re using portable…), there should be a line like,

<GUIConfig name="noUpdate" intervalDays="15" nextUpdateDate="20080426">yes</GUIConfig>

Can you confirm the value is “yes”?

But every now and then (now it’s multiple times a week), I see that it’s getting updated without my permission.

I find that unlikely. Even if it had auto-updates on, it would prompt you before updating

I turn it on – and see the new version. So I have to exit and reinstall 6.9.2 again.

Are you sure you don’t have multiple copies of N++ installed, and it’s sometimes running one and sometimes the other?

Is there ANY way to permanently disable any and all updates of Notepad++?

If you have noUpdate set to yes, it’s not supposed to update. If it somehow magically breaks that (which I am doubtful), then you should be able to go to your installation’s directory, and in the updater directory, delete any gup.exe or gpup.exe or similar from there, which gets rid of the executable which performs the update, making it impossible for Notepad++ to update)

Andrei Mincov 0

@PeterJones Yes, it says <GUIConfig name=“noUpdate” intervalDays=“15” nextUpdateDate=“20250426” autoUpdateMode=“0”>yes</GUIConfig>

I deleted gpup.exe following your advice. We’ll see if it helps.

PeterJones

@Andrei-Mincov-0 said in How do I disable updates FOREVER!:

@PeterJones Yes, it says <GUIConfig name=“noUpdate” intervalDays=“15” nextUpdateDate=“20250426” autoUpdateMode=“0”>yes</GUIConfig>

It really shouldn’t be doing an auto-update, then.
I wonder if you have some external package/application manager that’s trying to auto-update Notepad++, among other things, because Notepad++ really shouldn’t be.

I deleted gpup.exe following your advice. We’ll see if it helps.

The other thing I might recommend, since your line said April 26, is to use a non-Notepad++ editor on config.xml and change the nextUpdateDate to something in the distant future, like nextUpdateDate="20750426", so that way, even if it ignores the yes, it should see that it doesn’t need another update for 50 years. :-)

But I really believe that deleting gpup.exe should be sufficient, if it’s really your Notepad++ installation trying to update itself. (But neither that nor changing the config.xml date will help if some external app is trying to update Notepad++ for you.)

Andrei Mincov 0

@PeterJones I think I found the culprit behind this.

Looks like I had my Avast autoupdater to ON, and probably it was the reason behind quiet updates for both Notepad++ and my Mozilla Thunderbird 42.

It became a routine for me to reinstall old versions over and over and over agian.

Thank you for your response.

Really appreciate your help and detailed approach.