How to block an app from updating from the store

How to block an app from updating from the store ?
Just updated the text-app and my contextmenu is now again filled with another item .

Dont want this textmenu-item in my contextmenu , so if I dont update it , from store , my right-click keeps clean !
So , how(??) to block this app from updating ?? ( store)

What is the name of the app? The Store has lots of choices with the words of text and app.

pietcorus2 said:

So , how(??) to block this app from updating ??

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Store>Settings>App Updates/Automatically update apps>Off

Its the text-app, gave me a new contextmenu-item !
Dont need it , never seen before, came with latest store-update .
Auto-updates is off , but when searching for other updates , I get this "evil update" again ( text-app ) !!
So, I have to be very fast to stop it from downloading/installing...........

btw; its the Windows Notepath , " gives" us a new contextmenu-item , which I dont want !!

pietcorus2 said:

Windows Notepath

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Never heard of it. Uninstall it.

Edwin said:

Uninstall it.

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Ho, ho, not so fast , its a text-app .
You can use Wordpad also ( or MS-Word ).....
Dont want to lose it , its this f**** contextmenu-item I want to remove , but HOW ??

If I know how to remove it , I can update it again with the Store.............

pietcorus2 said:

Ho, ho, not so fast , its a text-app .
You can use Wordpad also ( or MS-Word ).....
Dont want to lose it , its this f**** contextmenu-item I want to remove , but HOW ??

If I know how to remove it , I can update it again with the Store.............

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You're gonna have to post some links and/or screenshots cuz I'm not totally sure what you're referring to.

Let me know what you're referring to so I can check it out.
I don't use Store apps, so..., heck, I don't even have the Store on my machine, so it's a bit of a p-i-t-a to get and install them!

Sorry Edwin , had to translate first ( Dutch to English ) .
This new contextmenu ( right-click ) is called ; " Edit with notepad " , it comes with latest notepad-update from the store.
Im using notepad , works fine , HOW ( ??) to get rid of this ( unwanted) contextmenu-item ??
Previous versions did not interfere in contextmenu , so I cant update it anymore............

pietcorus2 said:

Sorry Edwin , had to translate first ( Dutch to English )

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Ik kan ook een beetje Nederlands praten!!!

pietcorus2 said:

Im using notepad , works fine , HOW ( ??) to get rid of this ( unwanted) contextmenu-item ??

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Install an older version. (Installeer een oudere versie.)

You see the blue "Edit in Notepad " in the picture ?
HOW( ??) to get rid of this nonsense .............??!

pietcorus2 said:

You see the blue "Edit in Notepad " in the picture ?
HOW( ??) to get rid of this nonsense .............??!

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Yeah..., kinda stupid! It shows up on all file objects!!!

Its a new-years present from MS.............you should be happy !
( HOW (??) to get rid of it ??)

pietcorus2 said:

( HOW (??) to get rid of it ??)

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1. Install an older version...



2. Complain like crazy on the Feedback Hub and hope to hell they do something about it.

Edwin said:

1. Install an older version...

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2. Complain like crazy on the Feedback Hub and hope to hell they do something about it.

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Yes , this is my actual version now , no sh**** contextmenu ! ( the picture is from latest version , in Shadow-modus )
But.......when updating apps ( store) , the new one ( with the ugly contextmenu ! ) will update also , IF (!) I wont stop it from updating , you have to be very fast ! So , the question ; HOW ( ??) to stop this app from updating !!! If we know a solution , the problem is solved...........

pietcorus2 said:

If we know a solution , the problem is solved...........

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Uninstall the Store!

Edwin said:

Uninstall the Store!

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Cant , will miss some other good stuff also.............
There must be another solution , for sure , its a registry-item , cant find it sofar.....!

But the easiest way would be to uninstall Notepad and to use 3rd party alternative.

pietcorus2 said:

How to block an app from updating from the store ?

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Did you try any of the registry trick(s) described in:

I use this one:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsStore]
"AutoDownload"=dword:00000002

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And never get any app updates at all!
Which is how I like it, as I seldomly use Windows Apps.