Especially if you are using the Desktop version.
.....we've complained about that every year, but have not found a way to get that to stop. NY may download into your system, but if you don't use it, you are not charted for it....mostly it's just a waste of computer disk space and download time.
Some day the software managers at TTX will listen and get their programmers to stop allowing that annoying behavior.
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