I've done that now. Also disabled the Opera Auto-Update task in Task Scheduler.

I guess only time will tell if that's enough to stop it updating.

After the automatic update to Opera 45 (on Windows 7 Pro), the VPN was so problematic that it was essentially useless.

So, last week, I set the environment variable to OPERA_AUTOUPDATE_DISABLED and re-installed Opera 44. VPN worked perfectly again.

This morning, Opera has updated itself to version 45 again, apparently ignoring the environment variables.

Have I done something wrong with how I turned off the auto-update, or is Opera forcing through updates whether they are wanted or not? If I can't get this fixed, the next step is to find the Opera update servers and not allow them through the firewall.

Cheers

John