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How to Disable Visual Studio Code IDE Auto Update Feature to Turn off Automatic Updates
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Jun 1, 2025
Follow the Reddit VSCode Blog Post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/vscode/comments/wh38t7/disable_automatic_updates/
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uh hello guys welcome to this video so
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in this video I will show you how to
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disable uh VS code automatic updates so
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sometimes automatic updates in VS code
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can create problems in certain things
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not working so in this video I will show
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you how to disable it or manually update
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VS code when required so when you open
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VS code right here you will see this
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settings option this is your manage
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option simply click it and here you will
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see this option of settings simply go to
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this
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option and after going to this you will
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actually see inside this section of
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application right here if you see this
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is actually the section here inside your
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application section you will see this uh
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update section you need to simply click
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this option right here update and simply
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click it and by default if you see it is
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uh it will be set to
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uh this manual option or default option
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so if this set to default manual or
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start you just need to disable it by
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selecting none right here so as soon as
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you do the none part the automatic
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updates will be disabled and after that
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it will tell you to setting has been
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changed and requires a restart to take
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effect so just click the restart button
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to restart the VS code so I will just
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click the button restart and in this
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easy way your auto updates have been
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disabled and now every time if you want
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to update your VS code what you will do
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you go to the right inside the section
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inside help section and if you see there
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will be this about section you simply go
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to this and here it will tell you the
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exact version number which you are using
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in VS code so exactly you will see which
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version you have inside your VS code so
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you can see the information simply copy
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this
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everything and now every time you want
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to update again you need to go to this
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uh settings option right here and again
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go to the application and right here you
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will see this update option simply click
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and now need to simply uh select the
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start option so this will start the
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update process if a new version is
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available then it can if you click start
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and then again you just need to restart
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this so if a new version is available
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then it will automatically update your
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uh VS
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code so in this easy way this is by
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which you can disable the auto update or
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manually update VS code again if you
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want to disable it simply there is also
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this option disable
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updates so if you select this none
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option your updates will be disabled so
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in this easy way again whenever you uh
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just uh change this option again you
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need to restart VS code every time and
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there is again a second option you can
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do by using some kind of a code here so
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I have just given this Reddit post right
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here in the description of this video
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you can follow this post here where
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someone has given this code right here
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so this you just need to paste it inside
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your user settings file so you can
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actually open this user settings file
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preferences so it's a JSON file which
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controls the behavior of your VS code
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you just need to paste these two
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properties if you don't want to change
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previously what I showed you you can
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paste these two options which is
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update again you a setting has been
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changed again you need to restart this
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so what this setting is doing if you see
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we actually have this update setting
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update dot mode so there is a certain
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mode right here inside so we have set
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this mode to manual so if you want to
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disable it you just need to change this
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to none
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and again this option you just need to
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restart this so this also you can do
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open your preferences settings dojson
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file just paste these two properties
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update mode to none or update enable
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windows background
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updates so if you want to disable it
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this is the option enable windows
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background updates so this I set to
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false here if you set it to true again
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then the auto update will be enabled
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so here true and this you need to change
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it to either manual so this will again
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enable your auto updates feature so
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these are the two ways by which you can
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either this the first way is the manual
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way by which you can go to the settings
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option directly and this is the second
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way so you can choose whichever way that
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you want to do i found this way very
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easy going to the update section just
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selecting manually if you want to
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disable it you select the none option by
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default it's set to
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manual or if you want to enable auto
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update you can select the start option
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so this will check for updates only on
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startup disable automatic background
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updates
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check so I basically personally put this
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option to manual because I don't want
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auto updates on so thank you very much
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