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How to Disable Visual Studio Code Extensions Auto Update Feature to Turn off Updates For Extensions
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Jun 1, 2025
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uh hello guys welcome to this video so
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in this video I will show you uh how to
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disable uh the VS code extensions uh
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update auto update feature which is by
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default there inside VS code so if you
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install any
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extension by default it will be
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automatically be updated whenever a new
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version is available so if you want to
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disable this
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functionality then you can actually go
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to this option right here manage and
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then go to this settings
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option and after going to settings right
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here there will be this feature right
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here just go to
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features and inside this you will go to
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extensions so just go to extensions and
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right in the right hand side corner you
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will see this by default it will be
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check mark autoche updates so when
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enabled automatically checks extensions
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for updates if an extension has an
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update it is marked as outdated and
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these updates are fetched from a
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Microsoft online service so now to
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disable this you simply untick this mark
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right here and also right in the auto
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update section if you see it controls
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the automatic update behavior of
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extensions so here all the extensions
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are selected by default but you can
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enable extensions only certain
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extensions you can enable or you can
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disable everything by putting none right
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here so now just change this to none and
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untick this option that's all that you
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need to do and then you can restart your
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VS
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code and uh restart this to apply the
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changes
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uh that's all that you need to do and
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now your extensions will not be
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automatically be
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updated and uh you need to manually
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click the update button to actually
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let's suppose a new version is available
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you click the update button and then
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only the update will happen so here you
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can review the changes here so you will
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see
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update would you like to update the
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extension and then you can manually just
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press the update button so it will now
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install this so in this way you can
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disable this functionality again if you
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want to autocheck updates you again tick
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mark this again you select all
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extensions that's all that you need to
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do very
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simple so you can even if you are not
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getting this option again you simply go
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to extensions right here sorry go to
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settings and right here in the search
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bar just type here
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extensions auto update so as soon as you
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type this you will see this setting will
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appear right here below and then also
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you can untick and select none from here
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so this will also apply this setting to
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this VS code environment and it will
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disable all the
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extensions automatically updating
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setting and as soon as you do this it
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will add this inside your user settings
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JSON file these two
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settings can open this settings dojson
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file just add these two settings if you
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don't want to do the previous thing you
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can also add this code add these two
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properties extensions dotautoch checkupd
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updates to false extensions dotauto
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update to false so this will also do the
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same thing so simply copy this code if
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you don't want to do the previous
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thing so in this easy way you can uh
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disable the VS code extensions automatic
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update feature uh thank you very much
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