how do I stop these annoying Update nudges at the top of Settings?

v 1909 Pro

I check the Update page DAILY in Settings to update Defender (Security), and also when Update ITSELF indicates, which is usually monthly.

These notifications only started recently >

These Start settings (see below) have been like this and unchanged for many years.


These new notices only started recently!





note: insofar as I detest the Win 10 look, I have been using Classic Shell with Win 7 look also for many years so the Start settings doesn't show "tiles", etc., as depicted in your above post.

I no longer have the top banner in v 2004...

The banner is absent from my 1903 too.

Airider said:

I check the Update page DAILY in Settings to update Defender (Security)

You may use Task Scheduler to run the following VBScript at X-hour intervals.

Code:

Createobject("wscript.shell").Run("""%ProgramFiles%\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe"" ""-SignatureUpdate"""), 0

Windows Defender will be updated automatically in the background.

Hmmm ... did look through the related thread and it seems there are no posted lasting foolproof solutions.

Will keep investigating; glad to see I am not the only one with this "design feature" ....