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1 1- Disable Updates from System’s Settings

2 2- Using DoNotSpy
3 3- Through Registry Editor
4 4- Through Office Built-In Option
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1- Disable Updates from System’s Settings

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Open your Settings by pressing “Windows key +I”, and go to “Update and Security”. And then x
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Now here you will see a checkbox which says “Give me updates for other Microsoft products
when I update Windows”. Uncheck it, then Microsoft will not provide you any notification for
updates of its products.

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2- Using DoNotSpy
DoNotSpy is an anti-spy tool that helps you to create a System Restore Point fro your
assistance. If ever your Windows get corrupted, that Restore Point will help you to get back all
of your Settings.

Despite doing this, DoNotSpy has many other features, you can enable/disable your location,
enable/disable Windows defender and many other notifications.

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The thing you want to do is to disable Microsoft updates, you can do it from DoNotSpy tool. x
Scroll to find the option in the tool and check its checkbox.

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So now Windows or Microsoft will not provide you any new update of its any product.

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3- Through Registry Editor

You can also disable updates via the Registry Editor. Press “Windows key + R” to open the Run
dialog, type regedit.exe. Your Registry editor window will open. Go to following Key

“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\policies\Microsoft\office\16.0\common\officeupdate”

Then in the right-hand menu, an “Officeupdate” window will expand and shows you many keys.
Double click on EnableAutomaticUpdates and set its value to “0”. This will disable automatic
updates of Office.

If you do not have any such value, create a DWORD value of 32bit by right clicking on the x
plane white area in the right-hand window of “Officeupdate” section. And name the DWORD
value as “EnableAutomaticUpdates”, set its value to “0”.

Now close all windows, and Reboot your System once to apply all the changes.

4- Through Office Built-In Option

There is an option in Microsoft Office program’s window that will allow you to disable
notifications of its update so that if any update is available, you will not receive any info or
notification about it. Open any Office app from your System, and go to the File menu, then
select Account or Office Account. Then select the option for Office Updates. It is enabled by
default. If you do not want to have any new update, click on it, a drop-down menu will appear.
Select the option of “Disable updates”.

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So you are done with disabling Microsoft Office notification through its Built-In option available
in it.

You can enable it again, by going to same option and click on “Enable Updates”.

If you don’t see any of these options, there might be a possibility that you are using volume
license copy of Office 2016 or System Administrator has disabled updates from Group Policy.

I hope you get all the solutions. Apply them and stop your Microsoft Office 2016 from being
updated. And save your Internet Data, System’s Space and keep using your favorite version of
Office without updating it. Thank you

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5 COMMENTS

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Bob
JUNE 12, 2020 @ 12:53 AM

In my Win 10 install, the key shown does not exist. A search of the whole registry
for ‘officeupdate’ turns up nothing.

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Andy Smith
AUGUST 26, 2019 @ 3:08 PM

Exactly. The article first talks about how you can disable these notifications, then
ONLY goes on to show how you can disable or enable the automatic installation of
updates. NOT ONE WORD about disabling NOTIFICATIONS as they promised. I
would like to allow automatic download of updates, and be notified, but have them
installed when I say so, NOT automatically. This option seems to have
disappeared.

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Martin Clark
APRIL 25, 2019 @ 4:08 PM

Nothing here turns off update notifications for Office 2016.

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Tyler Vice
JUNE 8, 2018 @ 10:52 PM

So many sites say to go to that path in the registry… I have Office 2013 and there
is no sign of it in my registry:

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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\policies\Microsoft\office\16.0\common\officeu x
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Any idea why it wouldn’t be showing up? I do have the MSI volume license
version that won’t let me turn updates off in the options…I am the admin.

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Harold
DECEMBER 19, 2018 @ 12:34 AM

Change 16 to the correct number for office 2013 (15, 14, 13, its one of
those. 16 is 2016)

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