My "upgrade subscription" has expired. I decided that for my low usage and not using many advanced options, it's not worth to renew the subscription, especially because I am not a fan of changing software to this type of license. Not to mention that the updating process was annoying with the installation window popping up instead of being done silently in the background.
Unfortunately, I can't get rid of the update icon:
I disabled updates checking in Dopus settings, and I'm always clicking this tray icon with the right mouse button -> "Hide icon". After PC restart this icon is always coming back, and obviously when trying to update I get a warning that subscription has expired.
So my question is, how to permanently disable this icon if I decided that I don't want to update Dopus in the future?
Yes. It says: "An updated version (13.15.1 Beta) is available", and I have "Install" and "Save" button (so I suppose it even auto-downloaded the installer).
When I click Install I get a warning that my certificate won't work for this version, so I have to cancel the installation.
In "Edit update settings" I have unchecked all options.
However, now I noticed that: "Automatically download new program updates" is checked, just grayed out because "Check for news and program updates" is unchecked. So maybe I should just check the first option to disable the two grayed-out ones.
I can see how one might come to that decision. Possibly I might. My concern would be the no longer current version no longer being supported on a future version of windows.
If Opus 13.16 or above is already installed (i.e. people reading this in the future), you can skip the rest of the steps and launch Opus again. Otherwise, continue:
Edit C:\ProgramData\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\Global Data\globaldata.omd in a text editor (e.g. Notepad).
Find the place on the line which says: update_new_low="xyz" update_new_high="xyz"
Zero the two numbers: update_new_low="0" update_new_high="0"
Do the same where it says: update_download_low="xyz" update_download_high="xyz"
Changing both numbers to 0: update_download_low="0" update_download_high="0"
Save the change and launch Opus again.
Optionally, you can also go to your %temp% folder and delete the Directory Opus Updates directory under it to free up a bit of space.
We've also made some changes for the next version (13.15.2 beta / 13.16 stable) that will do all of that automatically on startup, if the update checker is turned off, so people on newer versions shouldn't have to do this manually. But that only helps when already running the new code, of course.
