Spotify: disable Automatic Updates - so it goes Dec 23,2020 +8677 @9 You want to disable the automatic Update of Spotify, it does not work, unfortunately, via a simple setting. Spotify wants to always update to the latest Version, so you'll have to prevent the Software only with a little Trick to it. We will show you how to do it, Automatic Updates in Spotify to disable Simultaneously press the keys "Windows" and "R", so the command "Run" will open. Enter "Seappdata%\spotify” and confirm with the "OK"Button Click with the right mouse button on an empty area in the folder and select "New" "text document” Give the file the name "Spotify_new.exe" and you repeat the step for any file with the name "Spotify_new.exe sig’ The two files have the extension "txt". This you need to delete, however. The txt extension is not easy to remove, you need to the file extensions under Windows display. Then click with the right mouse button on one of the files and select "properties", Select below the Option "read-only", close the window with "OK" and repeat the process for the second file. Spotify will now be prevented from updating to a new Version, because the permission is not granted to Delete the old Version.