Hi Mike - sorry I didn't see this sooner! I was actually having the same issue, but thankfully, so far so good (no forced updates). I'm not sure at what point it changed, but now, when I go to File...

Looks like you're missing the cd before the directory name. The whole command to change the directory should be exactly:
cd "C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun"

Then you...

Hmm... If you navigate to the "C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun" folder, is the OfficeC2RClient.exe file definitely there? And when you open the command prompt, are you...

Welp, I found a "fix" - given that you don't care about having any Office updates from the last 3 years. Per user "dacrone" in another thread (permalink to message):



Even though this was...

Well, just changing the entire Common folder to read-only ended up causing some other problems for me later - namely, Office would crash any time I tried to go to the File menu, or hit Ctrl+O to try...

Created an account just to say, THANK YOU!!! This was driving me nuts and worked perfectly for me! Much appreciated.