Horrid zombie update messages, how to turn off?

**jon404** · 22 February 2022, 04:05 AM

I'm using Designer Pro X17, and it pops up all these really stupid messages trying to get me to turn on some sort of Magix update program, begging me to update the software. Really stupid amateurish way to irritate a long-term customer. Any suggestions about how to make the nag messages go away, for good? Besides switching to Illustrator or Affinity?

**browj2** · 22 February 2022, 12:34 PM

Do you mean this message?

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**ss-kalm** · 22 February 2022, 07:38 PM

If that's what he's talking about, I keep getting it too, and it doesn't do anything. The installation won't start ... as it wouldn't a couple of years ago, when it kept popping up!

**browj2** · 23 February 2022, 03:19 AM

I have had it with each Magix program that I have, on two computers. As far as I know, it is just the app that keeps track of which version you have and notifies you if there is a new update for that program (You have version x.0.1, available update x.0.2). Nothing more. You just accept, ok, done. Nothing more to see.

**simsmj** · 23 February 2022, 11:14 AM

I've been getting this message, too, every time I run up the app, but it never installs anything, because next time whether I had clicked on it or not, it asks me to install it all over again, and the next time, and the next time. It won't install, and I get no error messages that it has failed to install. On top of that, my update subscription expired on 4th March 2020, as I also get reminded every time I've run up the app since then. It gets old really, really quickly!

Edit: Even running up XDP as administrator doesn't get it to install properly, as I just tried that in the vain hope it would stop pestering me to re-install it.