User Experience
Stop updating OSX?
16 Jun 2006
OSX keeps prompting me every few hours to install a critical software update—QuickTime. Because if I didn’t install this, I’d apparently be in real trouble.
QuickTime 7.1.1 addresses an issue with 3rd party start-up items on Intel Macs. This release also fixes an issue exporting Keynote presentations to iDVD.
I don’t have an Intel Mac. I’m slumming it with a year-old PowerBook. And I don’t use Keynote, prefering OpenOffice instead. So this isn’t all that critical of an update to me.
Each time it pops up, I just quit the updater. But then it comes back later. I suppose I could just install it and be done with it, but this update requires a restart. I find it greatly annoying that in order to stop getting nagged to install software I don’t need that I’ll need to restart. I restart roughly once every few weeks.
There’s got to be a way to permanently ignore a particular update without turning off software update altogether. Anyone?