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How to disable check for new version of Opera?

Saturday, June 24, 2006 12:17:44 PM

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By default, Opera checks for update every week and notifies you when there is an update.

New Opera version available notification message
Notification message

To disable check for new version, Tools > Preferences... > Advanced > Security > Auto-update > Do not check for updates

For Opera version 9

Set Check For New Opera to 0.

For Opera version 8

Note the path to Opera directory by clicking this. Close Opera, go to Opera directory, open opera6.ini and change value of Check For New Opera to 0 under [User Prefs].

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Comments

Libertylibertymiller Friday, February 27, 2009 10:20:15 PM

Tamil - just wanted to finally get around to thanking you for your "Opera 9 FAQ" http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/opera-faq !

I was browsing your posts and I found you had answered another question of mine:

/Tamil/blog/how-to-run-opera-beta-without-affecting-your-current-opera-settings

Thanks.

Unregistered user Sunday, October 11, 2009 5:05:54 PM

polocanada writes: Haven't found this in Opera 10. But seems it is now included in about:config, Auto Update, Auto Update State. I set it to 0.

polocanada Sunday, October 11, 2009 10:16:26 PM

Damn. Didn't help. Again started checking. I checked and played with all values in about:config. Nothing helps. I have no clue how to disable this.

Tamil Sunday, October 11, 2009 11:09:50 PM

Change it in preferences.

Unregistered user Monday, November 2, 2009 7:55:08 PM

Anonymous writes: polocanada do this... Tools> Preferences> Advanced> Security.... theres a option for auto update in the bottom... This worked for me... Hope it does for u too.. Peace

Unregistered user Thursday, December 17, 2009 7:54:06 PM

Аноним writes: ебать капать у меня опера не пашет! при обновлении ошибку выдаёт! заебала уже! что мне делать?

Tamil Thursday, December 24, 2009 12:20:28 PM

English please.

Unregistered user Monday, April 12, 2010 11:57:48 AM

old pc user writes: hi thanks so much i use opera because it uses less memory. thanks for the tip. i was searching for this in google. i am also from tamilnadu.

Unregistered user Friday, July 16, 2010 7:14:02 PM

Anonymous writes: Thanks so much! Opera 10.60 is evil =_=' so I wanted to stop 10.54 from upgrading. Excellent site!

Unregistered user Tuesday, July 20, 2010 7:40:21 AM

scorpio writes: Tamil Hi Excellent work!!!!! And this is for others who look for answers. If you don’t find the exact steps then definitely opera developer has put the option is some other place. Try using your common sense. Again people’s efforts are not waste. Great work Tamil!!!!!!!!!

Unregistered user Friday, July 30, 2010 10:47:35 PM

Ananda writes: Big sadhu for this useful tip!

Unregistered user Monday, September 6, 2010 1:59:48 PM

Anonymous writes: Thanks for the time you put in to this. I have been trying to figure out how to stop opera from updating because I too feel that opera older than 10.0 is evil also.

Unregistered user Friday, October 15, 2010 7:40:25 PM

Anonymous writes: I had to switch off auto-update because of the pesky default check in the checkbox "install new updates silently". I don't want to ever click "ok" without noticing. Would it be THAT hard to remember I NEVER, EVER want this program (or any other) to download/install ANYTHING without asking me? (rolling my eyes...)

Unregistered user Wednesday, October 20, 2010 12:39:19 AM

Anonymous writes: Sorry but none of this works for me with opera 10.63 and it really annoyed me whenever I mistype that it runs off to google without me asking. But I beat it! Create your own "donothing" search engine in the search engines list and make it default. Then it doesn't no where to go and leaves you in peace. If you really want to search then enter what you want in the search bar and select the engine you really want to use. BTW google mobile is god, because it cuts all the adverts out and returns just a net listing. It would seem unlikely that google can prevent this being used the way they have done with scroogle.

Unregistered user Monday, January 17, 2011 5:20:29 PM

Anonymous writes: Thank you for the tip to disable opera updates. I couldn't find it on my own.

Unregistered user Thursday, February 3, 2011 2:17:52 AM

Anonymous writes: Opera 11. Click Menu then F1 and enter into the search "Disable Auto-update" > search. Menu > Settings > Prefs > "Advanced" tab > Security tab on the left > Pull-down window at lower right and click on "Do Not Check For Updates" Your welcome. Scott

Unregistered user Wednesday, February 16, 2011 6:46:47 PM

Anonymous writes: Can't find this anywhere in opera 9.6. I think I have to wait to see the check box and say Don't tell me again. I Hate opera updates TOO because they always mutilate the interface and add more features. Opera jumped the shark when they added skins. The features may be innovative, but I don't need to link or unite with anyone, or have have opera turbo funnel all my traffic through opera's compression servers. All these features are creepy. I was disappointed when opera went free, because now they survive as spyware. I also like having multiple, separate installs of opera. How can I have them separate when they all upgrade themselves secretly.

Unregistered user Friday, May 20, 2011 9:53:05 PM

Анонимно writes: I hate unwanted update notifications. Can't they by default disable this enraging pop-up message??? Or do they believe that I'm stupid idiot and can't check for update by myself? That's disappointing... It could be a check box (better disabled by default) in the install wizard to have user to specify whether he would like to see auto-update popups or not. But taking decision on someones behalf.. it's totally disgusting

Unregistered user Wednesday, May 25, 2011 2:58:06 PM

Anonymous writes: Also, I would take all the .exe files and configs, and check them to read only status..

Unregistered user Wednesday, June 29, 2011 4:24:17 PM

Anonymous writes: Thanks for this, Opera 11.50 looked really messed up. Glad I had the older versions installation file.

Unregistered user Wednesday, July 6, 2011 10:12:04 AM

Egger writes: "Anonymous writes: Also, I would take all the .exe files and configs, and check them to read only status.." Don't think you're going to get this to work - better off going into the security settings and disallowing write access to Admins!

Unregistered user Saturday, July 9, 2011 3:55:53 AM

Anonymous writes: opera 11.50 is loosing it, opera u are updating way too much think I'll go back to version 10 instead.

Unregistered user Thursday, July 14, 2011 8:48:15 AM

Darren writes: Changed the setting to: Do not check for updates ...And every time opera starts it is still prompting me Version 11.11 Build 2109 Platform Win32 System Windows 7

Tamil Thursday, July 14, 2011 9:05:06 AM

Set Level Of Update Automation to 0.

Rafael Luikrafaelluik Thursday, July 14, 2011 10:56:58 PM

If you define the time by weeks in opera:config#UserPrefs|CheckForNewOpera so what's the function of opera:config#AutoUpdate|UpdateCheckInterval?

Unregistered user Saturday, July 30, 2011 4:33:43 AM

Anonymous Taz writes: Thanks for the info

Unregistered user Sunday, September 4, 2011 4:27:42 AM

james from miami writes: thanks! i've been lookinq for this for half an hour, you had the perfect answer!

Unregistered user Sunday, September 4, 2011 4:28:48 AM

james from miami writes: btw, thanks for not makinq me be a member to post here. so many times i would like to thank someone for their help, but they force people to siqn up, which i don't...

Unregistered user Monday, September 19, 2011 11:13:26 AM

jpk writes: opera is growing worser and worser after 8 years I am considering swiching to firefox congratulations opera

Unregistered user Wednesday, January 25, 2012 10:07:09 PM

frits NL writes: Opera 11.60 crashes on my ASUS K8V VM motherboard. I ve installed it on both Open Suse 12.1 and Open Suse 11.4 Opera 11.60 on both suse versions crashed. The problem is I cannot find out what the problem is, The screen on which I should be able to find out about the problem only lasts for half a second on the screen. I have installed version 11.1 (suse 11.4 version) and this looks like working OK. On my laptop (DELL with Suse 12.1 Opera 11.60 works fine.

Tamil Thursday, January 26, 2012 11:24:49 AM

Did you try Opera 11.61?

Unregistered user Friday, May 4, 2012 3:14:13 PM

opera updates bugs 11.61 writes: the damn opera checks updating even I chose "do not check update". Now it does not open any sites. The hell with Opera! Frustrating indeed!

Unregistered user Wednesday, June 6, 2012 11:14:44 AM

Jack writes: Is there any way to disable the auto updates for opera from registry??

Tamil Monday, June 11, 2012 5:54:43 AM

Nope.

ukdiamond001 Saturday, June 16, 2012 9:18:45 AM

Opera 11.52 win 7
in securities ticked do not check for updates
Level of automation set to 0
Auto update in preferences manager set to 0

Still continues to advise of update.


Tamil Saturday, June 16, 2012 10:04:01 AM

sherlock

Unregistered user Monday, June 18, 2012 6:18:31 PM

Anonym writes: to ukdiamond001: you should install the old opera version again... before that you tick "do not check for updates"... and than it doesnt coninues to advise of update. (sry for my bad english)

Tamil Monday, June 18, 2012 11:25:31 PM

Install Opera as standalone-alone installation (USB).

Unregistered user Sunday, July 1, 2012 6:06:05 PM

My Name is Nobody writes: Another page in this community (began by "Globe Locust" and entitled "How can I remove opera update popup") offered the following perspective: If the autoupdate cycle has already started in your system, the "Do not check for updates" would have no effect. You will need to delete the auto-updater's temporary installation folder, where the installer has been downloaded, to cancel it. The folder in question should be found at C:\Documents and Settings\NAME\Local Settings\Temp\CProgram FilesOpera\ in XP and at C:\Users\NAME\AppData\Local\Temp\CProgram FilesOpera\ in Vista/7. Just delete it. FYI Related discussion: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=1039972

Unregistered user Monday, July 2, 2012 1:03:23 PM

Anonymous writes: what a pain this Opera become.. nothing to disable that updates!

Unregistered user Monday, July 9, 2012 11:42:46 AM

r3ach3r writes: BIG THX @ My Name is Nobody!!! WORKS LIKE A CHARM! I'm on Win 7 and I'm still using the 11.64 version, don't want that shitty 12v to be installed on my pc. I find it very instable and full of buggs! I deleted only the downloaded via auto update version,OperaUpgrader.exe and autoupdate.txt. And it works...for now xD .If prompted update again , I'll try to delete the whole "CProgram FilesOpera" folder. Once again thx man! Now to be sure this solution will be visible to as many folks as possible I'll repeat what you said: !!!FOR COMPLETELY DISABLED UPDATE MESSAGES!!! !!!LISTEN UP WHAT TO DO DUDES!!! !!!I ONLY TESTED THAT METHOD ON WINDOWS 7 PRO SO I ONLY GUARANTEE IT WORKS ON THAT OS!!! -------------------- [FOR WIN 7/VISTA] GO TO C:\Users\NAME\AppData\Local\Temp\CProgram FilesOpera\ AND DELETE these files: -------------------- -Operaupgrader.exe -The downloaded new version -autoupdate.txt -------------------- [FOR WIN XP] GO TO C:\Documents and Settings\NAME\Local Settings\Temp\CProgram FilesOpera\ AND DELETE the same files!!! -------------------- !!!IF THIS NOW WORKS FOR YOU!!! [FOR WIN 7/VISTA/XP] DELETE THE WHOLE "CProgram FilesOpera" FOLDER! ENJOY AND CHEERS FROM BULGARIA! IT'S A HOT SUMMER HERE LOL! ^^

Unregistered user Monday, July 9, 2012 11:48:09 AM

r3ach3r writes: Some spell check: xD [row 2]unstable NOT instable [row 12]not NOT now lol!

Unregistered user Thursday, August 9, 2012 6:03:51 PM

Anonymous writes: None of these worked for me. Decided to just get rid of this Opera rubbish and go back to FF. Cheers.

Unregistered user Sunday, May 5, 2013 2:25:25 PM

Dianu BOCA writes: The common sense tell us that there must be an exe file who launc each time the autoupdate attempt. Now, there are 3 simple ways to get rid of the annoying autoupdate message (tested on Win 7) 1)C:\Windows\Prefetch, delete Operaupgrader.exe-7B1C21E6.pf 2)C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Local\Temp\CProgram Files (x86)Opera, then delete Opera-12.15-1748.i386.autoupdate.exe 3)C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Local\Temp\CProgram Files (x86)Opera, then delete OperaUpgrader.exe Restart Opera, job done

Unregistered user Monday, May 6, 2013 4:00:16 PM

Anonymous writes: none works from above, any other tip how disable autoupdate in 10.63 help

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