We would like to update our Audacity installations to the newest version 3.1.3 but we noticed that “Check for updates” is enabled by default. How can we disable this by default for all users? We use silent insall (audacity-win-3.1.3-32bit.exe /VERYSILENT /NORESTART) in our batch scripts.
In each user’ “audacity.cfg”
[Update]
DefaultUpdatesChecking=0
How to make this default setting without using scripts to scan all audacity.cfg files periodically?
Are you just wanting to set the default value, or do you want to permanently block Audacity’s update checking even if the user tries to enable it?
If it’s the former, you only need to set the value once when Audacity is installed.
If the latter, then use your firewall, or whatever method you use for other apps, or simply deny Internet access to those computers.
The default value is enough.
And set this for 300 computers and every 500 users.
I build an installation packet for version 3.02 which won’t check updates.
Out of interest, why do you want your users to use obsolete versions of Audacity? Isn’t it normally considered good practice to keep your software up to date?
Is it still impossible to disable automatic update checks for all users?
Include a default “audacity.cfg” in your installer script.
I cannot find the the default.cfg. There’s no cfg files in Audacity install folder.
That’s the factory default - no preferences set.
- If Users<username>\AppData\Roaming\audacity\audacity.cfg exists when Audacity is launched, then Audacity will use it.
- If Users<username>\AppData\Roaming\audacity\audacity.cfg does not exist when Audacity is launched, then Audacity creates a new (initially empty) “audacity.cfg” file, and then populates it with default settings.
- When the user changes a Preference setting, the audacity.cfg file is updated.
So by creating a Users<username>\AppData\Roaming\audacity\audacity.cfg file with your installation script, you can set whatever default Preferences that you want.
The folder *c:\Users<username>* does not exist if the user has not logged in. We have over 1600 users so we can’t create home folders beforehand.
Really 
I’m a Linux guy, and on Linux it’s a standard option to create a home folder when adding a new user. If that’s not possible on Windows then I’d be shocked. Try asking your SysAdmin how to do it.
So I don’t know if this helps, but for the current user, and depending on the program you are using, %appdata%\audacity is equivalent to Users<username>\AppData\Roaming\audacity.