Check For Updates Automatically

[Shawana Kallhoff]

Youcan find your device's Android version number, security update level, and Google Play system level in your Settings app. You'll get notifications when updates are available for you. You can also check for updates.

If an update starts downloading and doesn't finish, your device will automatically try again over the next few days.

When it tries again, you'll get a notification. Open the notification and tap the update action.

To make sure you're protected by the latest security updates, Google Chrome can automatically update when a new version of the browser is available on your device. With these updates, you might sometimes notice that your browser looks different.

The browser saves your opened tabs and windows and reopens them automatically when it restarts. Your Incognito windows won't reopen when Chrome restarts. If you'd prefer not to restart right away, click Not now. The next time you restart your browser, the update will be applied.

Well, I don't want it to run on its own, ever. I cancel it, and quit it. I right-click on the taskbar and unclick "Check for Updates Automatically", and then click "Never Check", and "Apply". And yet, it never remembers this setting. If I come back to the "Java Control Panel" right after clicking "OK", the very same box is checked again, all on its own.

Is there some way to kill jucheck once and for all? If I simply delete jucheck.exe, will Java (other than the automatic check) still work, and will manual updates still work, and will it stop even trying to update every morning?

Open the "Run" Command on the Start Menu, type "msconfig" (w/o the quotes), and go to the "Startup" tab. Check for any Java related programs starting when the computer boots. Then uncheck it, click OK, and reboot the computer...

If that doesn't work, open the "Run" command again, type services.msc, and look for any Java related services, especially a Java Service with the word 'update' or 'automatic' in it...Then right-click it, select properties, and disable the service...click OK, and you're done...Hope this helps!

JUCheck was designed for computers with a single user who is an administrator. For those of us with computers that have multiple users where not all of them are administrators, then your simplest option is to rename jucheck.exe

You could also stop JUCheck from running on start up by using msconfig, following the solution provided by studiohack. To do this on Windows 8, log on as a user with admin rights and press CTRL-ALT-DEL and click on Task Manager. Select the Startup tab and right click Java(TM) Update Scheduler and click Disable.

My preferred solution is not to install the JUCheck component in the first place. It also makes the Update tab of the Java Control Panel disappear cleanly. This is a good approach if you manage hundreds or thousands of computers. Rather than have each computer downloading the update you can download it just once and then distribute it in a controlled manner after testing it with your line of business apps.

It may come as no surprise that Tom is an engineer in Java SE security for Oracle Corporation UK. Any software that requires all users of a computer to have admin rights is "in my opinion" highly irresponsible.

If you have any Adobe products installed, you might want to check for more JRE locations. For example, when Adobe Creative Suite 5 is installed, it automatically installs old versions of JRE into these locations:

To answer an earlier question - the reason that I want to disable it is because earlier versions weren't very good at uninstalling the previous version before installing the new one. That caused problems with some of the Java software we use at work - also, because work machines have a set version on, I want to ensure that my home pc has the same version - so if I develop stuff for students, it will work. (Some of the elearning software we use doesn't work with newer versions of Java).

Were Java to say (as other software does) 'you've already got Java - shall I uninstall it, or do you want two versions' - then I'd let the autoupdate run. (I'd also quite like it if it remembered to ask me before downloading, rather than after. It used to remember these things.)

It seems as if Java is ignoring the settings on purpose (in javacpl.exe), but sometimes this is happening because there are more then one version of Java installed on the PC, so one must change the settings for every version separately.

I'm running Firefox 68.9.0 ESR, and it keeps whining about an update being available. I don't care, because every time I update, one of the extensions I use every day is disabled without my permission. How do I get firefox to shut up about it once and for all? In other words, where is the "do not check for updates" command hidden, or, how else can I shut this thing up? I have, in the past, liked firefox, but it has, over the last few years, supported less and less of features I use daily, at a minimum, many times/day for most.

So how do I shut these annoying alerts about an update I have NO intention of installing off? "You can't" is not a valid answer. Nor is "just upgrade and lose half of the stuff (again) that you use all the time." Sorry if I sound angry, but these constant annoyances (and Thunderbird is doing the same---so same question for it here) are really getting on my nerves.

I have Firefox almost working the way it should. Still can't click in a bookmark toolbar bookmark and then click on "add bookmark here" like I could. That was one of those I used about 10--30 times per day, depending on what I was working on.

I have my extensions update automatically---they don't break things when they update, like Firefox and Thunderbird do. Now, if Firefox and Thunderbird were to list everything the next update would break, along with whatever positive changes it would make, I could better evaluate whether or not to do the update. Oh, and some updates, once done, don't let you go back to a previous version, so if the update fscks things up for you, you can't even go backwards to the previous version that worked (that would also need to be in that list of everything that the update would break). But they don't do that. So I stay with the version that works for me.

Or, in this case, almost works. I'm still waiting for the ability to create a bookmark in a bookmark folder on the bookmark toolbar directly (used to be called, "add bookmark here" and was an extension) to come back. That was great---have a bunch of tabs of gamedev stuff that I want to bookmark in my gamedev bookmarks toolbar folder (or a folder under that one, or a folder under a folder under that one, etc.)? Click on the gamedev folder (or whatever sub-folder, sub-sub-folder, etc.) and add the bookmark there in one step.One step (smart) then vs several steps (stupid) now. That's only one example, but it's my #1 example.

Thanks. I'll try the registry thing tomorrow. It's been about 20 years (Windows NT and 2000 at work only, at what was then 16th Special Operations Wing Intelligence---last I heard, back to Hurlburt's original 1SOW) since I've even touched an M$ box. This one is my game development (and by definition, also gaming) system, and for various reasons, I'm currently planning on keeping it running on Windows 10....but I don't want to be playing around in the registry editor at this time of night when I'm tired, grumpy because of this (and search engines that think cal and calendar are the same program on Unix---I'm trying to get calendar working in Cygwin...stupid search engines keep telling me about cal ... not even spelled the same!), etc.

Hopefully that fixes it. If not, not being able to disable updates (which, again, always break something that I use regularly) will be the last straw for any Mozilla products, forever. First it's extensions (and only the most extremely popular ones at that). Now it's removing the option to not update Firefox or Thunderbird on MY computer. M$ seems to think the same way: that they have any say over MY computer and can disable software like Godot 3 (game development system), or Cygwin, etc., "just 'cause"....and not let me fix it. Bye bye Windows Defender (aka Windows Offender). Hello Godot 3, nice to see you again. :-)

To disable these checks:Click the menu button and select Options. Preferences.In the General panel, scroll down to the Firefox Updates section.Check Never check for updates (not recommended) and uncheck Automatically update search engines.Close the about:preferences page.

As for the registry editor thing, I just did that. We'll see if it worked. I'll know if, by the time I get back from getting blood labs done for my doctor, there aren't any annoying update banners in Firefox and Tbird. If it did, Firefox and Thunderbird get to live. If not.......

Well, Thunderbird gets to die. It just popped up the update bs. (Unless it requires a different approach, and what looks like it should work for all Mozilla stuff doesn't). It's popped up two since restarting.

As for why such interim updates are needed: the population of "beta" testers is pretty small, so when a new version is released to millions of Firefox users across the great diversity of OS versions, add-ons, websites used, and work styles, new problems are always detected.

Well, nothing worked on Firefox or Thunderbird. They are still exhibiting the policy that says, "check for updates but let me decide whether to install them" which translates to "check for updates and we're going to nag you to death until you either update or uninstall." That's what Mozilla calls a choice? Wow. That's evil.

I found the ULTIMATE solution. I went into c:/programsandfiles/MozillaFirefox and deleted updater.exe.Same for Thunderbird. I be it's quiet now. ;-} Nothing else posted here worked. This, I'm 99.99% sure, should work.

IMO and experience that is risky. There something beyond that updater.exe that got one of my old installed versions to update. And over the next 3 launches of that installation to continue in 3 "steps" or stages. I was a huge jump from like Firefox 38 or so ....

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