Auto-Update
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lando242 last edited by
Either block the auto-updater in your firewall or find it and rename it and disable the scheduled task.
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digiface last edited by
Don't won't to create a new topic, so i will ask here. When i go about opera page to check updates, check works fine, but i get this error to opera_autoupdate.log: ...ERROR:ipc_channel_win.cc(159)] pipe error: 109
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rovf last edited by
???? What has my firewall to do with the auto-update of my Opera browser????
The only Firewall we have, is our corporate Firewall, and the Firewall certainly doesn't even know, that I have Opera installed.
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rovf last edited by
Does this mean, that Opera by itself does NOT provide a way to disable auto-updates, and the only way is to block this from the outside???? Don't tell me that this is true!!!
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
Don't won't to create a new topic, so i will ask here. When i go about opera page to check updates, check works fine, but i get this error to operaautoupdate.log: ...ERROR:ipcchannel_win.cc(159)] pipe error: 109
Wonder what's that all about?Please open another topic as this a complete different issue.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
Does this mean, that Opera by itself does NOT provide a way to disable auto-updates, and the only way is to block this from the outside???? Don't tell me that this is true!!!
Yep, there is no setting to disable autoupdate and i don't thinl there will be one in a near future.
As i said somewhere else, i think this will be the default behavior for most softwares sooner or later. Even Windows is doing it depending on your version of Windows 10.
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digiface last edited by admin
When i had opera_autoupdate.exe accidentally blocked by my firewall, Opera created bunch of small ssdfp... files in the Opera profile folder. I guess they were created every time due a failed update check attemp. So if you block the update, there can be load of those files in your Opera profile folder. I'm not sure if those are ever auto-cleared by Opera.
https://forums.opera.com/topic/3252/many-ssdfp-files-in-opera-stable-since-opera-22
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davidr last edited by
In the thread linked by digiface, there was reference to setting an environment variable OPERAAUTOUPDATEDISABLED. I know how to set a variable, but what would be the value used? 1?
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davidr last edited by
Thanks, leocg. I did set it to 1; but I also like szubirubi's idea of renaming "opera_autoupdate.exe" (if Oprah doesn't mind
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skoy21 last edited byGo to C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera\32.0.1948.69 (or the latest version folder you have)
Rename opera_autoupdate.exe, opera_autoupdate.licenses and opera_autoupdate.version to something else, eg. opera_autoupdate.exe.BKP etc...
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davidr last edited by
Beautiful, skoy21! I mistakenly made the name change to C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera\updatechecker\opera_autoupdate.exe, which of course was the Opera 12 updater. Thanks much for pointing me in the right direction.
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overcast2 last edited by
Thanks for the instructions. I've used it to prevent Opera from updating on a laptop that's being used in a remote part of the world with (very) slow internet speeds. (Opera was chosen as the default web browser because it has Turbo mode, which speeds up web browsing a lot there.)
What way would you recommend to update Opera when the laptop is in a region with good internet speed? (operaautoupdate.exe, operaautoupdate.licenses and operaautoupdate.version have been renamed)
Can I simply reinstall Opera with the newest version and/or do I have to restore the operaautoupdate files with the original file names?
Thanks.
