Disable Registrations

This page is a list of ways (largely MCX/preferences) for disabling registration dialogs, pop-ups, warnings, new product feature updates, software update notifications and other things that get in the way of users using software.

These are for computing environments where software is managed for users rather than users having to update, upgrade, or register any of their software or otherwise to get past the nagware in many applications.

Microsoft Auto-Update

To use manual updates instead of automatically checking:

Preference domain	Identifier	Key	Type	Value
User?	com.microsoft.autoupdate	HowToCheck	string	Manual