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Originally Posted by jhowell
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Preventing undesired updates
The Kindle app can be aggressive about updating itself to the latest version. Even after the option to automatically install updates is deselected the software sometimes will update itself unexpectedly.
To block automatic updates under Windows locate the "updates" folder within your Kindle for PC installation and replace it with a file of the same name. The attached batch file ("disable k4pc download.bat") will perform that process automatically as long as Kindle for PC has been installed for single user use. After running this file Kindle for PC will still try to download the new update each time it is restarted, but it will be unable to do so.
See this post by odamizu for instructions to block automatic updates on the Mac platform.
When running the app if a dialog pops up indicating that a newer version is available always choose the option to "skip this version".
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I am so sorry if this seems like an obvious question, but I am a little confused about the disable kindle for PC download.bat. I see the folder labled "updates" and whenever I close out Kindle it fills with a new update and the "automatically install updates" gets rechecked. Am I supposed to delete the folder "updates" and create a blank text file named "updates" and just scoot the .bat file under it? Or am I creating a file called "updates.txt" and putting it in the "updates"folder and scooting the .bat file in that folder as well?
This:
C:\Users\Robin\AppData\Local\Amazon\Kindle\updates \updates.txt
C:\Users\Robin\AppData\Local\Amazon\Kindle\updates \disable k4pc download.bat
Or this:
C:\Users\Robin\AppData\Local\Amazon\Kindle\updates .txt
C:\Users\Robin\AppData\Local\Amazon\Kindle\disable k4pc download.bat