Stop Update Nag Opening Minitool v. 9.1

starchase · Oct 10, 2022

A minor irritant: the "a new version has been detected, do you want to update to a new version?" nag screen when opening Mini Tool PW, version 9.1. Is there a way to turn that off? One post on Reddit says remove the updatechecker.exe file, but I don't have that file onboard. I do have "show all files" selected in Windows Explorer. I don't find the update entry in Task Scheduler nor Autoruns. Another solution proposed is to block ports 79-81 and IP 173.254.33.48 on my router. I can try that but I don't know what other programs I use need that me require these ports. Maybe I'm just resigned to put up with it, which I can do. Perhaps the update check is just embedded inside the executable.

Thanks!
John

Ghot · Oct 10, 2022

starchase said:
A minor irritant: the "a new version has been detected, do you want to update to a new version?" nag screen when opening Mini Tool PW, version 9.1. Is there a way to turn that off? One post on Reddit says remove the updatechecker.exe file, but I don't have that file onboard. I do have "show all files" selected in Windows Explorer. I don't find the update entry in Task Scheduler nor Autoruns. Another solution proposed is to block ports 79-81 and IP 173.254.33.48 on my router. I can try that but I don't know what other programs I use need that me require these ports. Maybe I'm just resigned to put up with it, which I can do. Perhaps the update check is just embedded inside the executable.

Thanks!
John

I would just switch to the newest free version,... 12.6 I think.

I do have v9.1 on a USB stick for emegencies, but I have 12.6 installed within Windows.

clam1952 · Oct 10, 2022

I have Free 11.4 from 2019 and it's never nagged me to update, may be something encoded in older versions?

starchase · Oct 10, 2022

It has been reported here I think and elsewhere that version 9.1 was the best free version with a number of features that were removed in subsequent versions. So that's why I have downgraded from the latest to 9.1. I'd agree that I probably wouldn't ever use those features (I forget which they are

) but thought why not have all the features I may have use for. But perhaps I can put the mobile version of 9.1 on a USB stick as mentioned. Thanks for replying.

clam1952 · Oct 10, 2022

starchase said:
It has been reported here I think and elsewhere that version 9.1 was the best free version with a number of features that were removed in subsequent versions. So that's why I have downgraded from the latest to 9.1. I'd agree that I probably wouldn't ever use those features (I forget which they are ) but thought why not have all the features I may have use for. But perhaps I can put the mobile version of 9.1 on a USB stick as mentioned. Thanks for replying.

At a guess it's the Partition Recovery which needs a paid version and data recovery is limited on the free version.

starchase · Oct 10, 2022

Just tried to start version 9.1 from a USB stick but it wants to install on my system, and remove the existing install. Oh well, I can live with the nag screen.