This is harder than it seems. My first thought was disconnect from the Internet and restart TT, but that doesn't work. If you have auto-update set, TT insists on having the network so it can update. (This is a serious bug. What if your network is genuinely down and you need to open TT? It won't let you!)
Then I was thinking you could edit the file
%AppData%\Intuit\TurboTax\TY21\TTWinUserState.xml
It contains a line for this, with 3 states:
<entry key="Intuit.Ctg.Wte.Service.eDelivery.UpdaterPreference">AutoDownload</entry>
or
<entry key="Intuit.Ctg.Wte.Service.eDelivery.UpdaterPreference">AskUserToCheck</entry>
or
<entry key="Intuit.Ctg.Wte.Service.eDelivery.UpdaterPreference">Disabled</entry>
But it seems that line of that file lags behind the actual program. So you might try carefully editing it and rebooting the PC and/or restarting TT several times and see whether that will change the state of the updater preference. Please let me know if it works.
PS: Hi, @Kat !
