Disable auto update for all users

[Michal Rosiek]

Hello,

I've been searching for a way to disable the automatic update notification window for all users who log in to the VM. Although there is an option within STATA in general settings, it only works for the current user. Could you please advise me on how to disable this for all users?

Thank you.

[Kiel Hurley]

To disable automatic update, set the following Registry key to "0": HKCU:\Software\Stata\Stata17\set_w\update_query

You could use Group Policy to set it, otherwise, a PowerShell logon script would work too:

New-Item -Path "HKCU:\Software\Stata\Stata17\set_w\update_query" -Value "0" -ItemType String -Force

To just disable the prompt, but still update, set HKCU:\Software\Stata\Stata17\set_w\update_prompt to 0.

[Nick Cox]

Does this work beyond Windows? I imagine that there is something similar on other platforms.

[Leonardo Guizzetti]

This won't necessarily affect all users, but from within Stata you can control update frequency, prompt and query (-help update- and -help set-) to turn them both off, even permanently. You could also put these in your -sysprofile.do- which I believe will control it for all users.

[Michal Rosiek]

Thx all

[Michal Rosiek]

To disable automatic update, set the following Registry key to "0": HKCU:\Software\Stata\Stata17\set_w\update_query

You could use Group Policy to set it, otherwise, a PowerShell logon script would work too:

New-Item -Path "HKCU:\Software\Stata\Stata17\set_w\update_query" -Value "0" -ItemType String -Force

To just disable the prompt, but still update, set HKCU:\Software\Stata\Stata17\set_w\update_prompt to 0.

that works, thank you!