Disable Apple Software Update and Safari Update

by Oscar Sodani

April 14, 2008

Oscar Sodani is a founder of Help2Go and owner of Help2Go Networks, an IT consulting firm in the Washington D.C. area. Oscar holds the CISSP certification as well as industry certifications from Microsoft, Cisco and Novell.

Here's something that was driving me crazy: every day, I would get a pop-up screen called Apple Software Update that would ask if I wanted to update Safari to 3.1, the latest version. Clicking Quit makes the window disappear, but it just re-appears the next day. How annoying! Here's how to get rid of it:

Here's the annoying screen:

Apple Software Update

The secret to disabling the Apple Software Update is to check the items you want to get rid of. Then, click on the Tools menu in that window, and click on Ignore Selected Updates...

Apple's software will never bother you again about that update.

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