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How to open microsoft autoupdate on mac3/15/2024 ![]() Having an application pop up, steal focus and grab the user’s attention just to tell the user that there is nothing to tell is stupefyingly atrocious UX. But 95% of the time, this is what opens up: Occasionally, of course, it will tell me that there is an update available, in which case it’s fine that it In the most recent versions, however, the application pops up four, five, six times every single day, stealing focus and taking up screen estate. The actual AutoUpdate application (with a GUI visible to the user) only popped up when there was something to update so you could click to install any updates you wanted. In previous iterations of the program, this was done in some sort of background daemon or helper process, I presume, Since a fairly recent update – not sure exactly when it happened, perhaps about a month or so ago – a new and very annoying ‘feature’ has crept into my Microsoft AutoUpdate, and I’m trying to find a way to get rid of this ‘feature’.ĪutoUpdate connects to Microsoft’s servers at regular intervals to check if there are any updates available that is sort of its main purpose. Microsoft AutoUpdate is installed and currently at version 4.22. ![]() I have Microsoft Office 2019 (retail version) installed on my Mac Mini running macOS Catalina (10.15.4).
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