Silent Update Checks Are Always A Bad Idea

[Andrew]

Thanks for the replies!

I did a little digging myself and found the answer. There is a file called preferences.dat which is installed in the DeviceDoctorSoftware\DeviceDoctor sub directory the user's %appdata% path (in Windows XP that's usually C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\.)

This file has only one entry in it called automatic_updates which is set to True if auto-updates were selected. The file is absent otherwise. Also absent is a sub-directory called updates, which presumably would hold any updates which are downloaded.

It seems (though I've not tested this just tested and it worked!) that to enable auto updates, simply create the file and directory I have described and to disable them, delete the file and directory.