Optional Update: How Make It Go Away?


  1. TomBrooklyn
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    Optional Update: How Make It Go Away?


    Is there a way to get rid of optional update notifications so they don't persist and just become annoying?


    I got one now to install Bing. I don't know much about Bing; but I think it's a search engine. I use google and don't need another search engine. I don't want to reminded to install it everytime I get an important update notification for the next five years or so that I plan to have this computer.
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  3. z3r010
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    Right click on it and select "hide update".
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  4. Brink
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    Hello Tom,

    You should be able to hide the update to no longer see it anymore. :)

    Windows Update - Hide or Restore Hidden Updates

    Hope this helps,
    Shawn

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    Beat me to it.
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