How do I stop home auto-updating ?? No matter which version, or what I put in preferences .. as soon as I open it, it does an update and ends up with the new one .. just gives me a "critical update" and if I choose cancel it shuts down completely ... going around in circles here ..

I can't find application.ini .. ?? Win 7 here .

EDIT .. Sorted

Eventually found the application.ini ... in the folder /xul ... changed the first digit of the version number from 2 to 3 .. saved and tried it .... all working nicely again...

Entwood Reviewed by Entwood on 29th January 2013. New TomTom Home versions available 2.9.1.2780 for Windows 2.9.1.1634 for Mac Probably because new maps are imminent Rating: 5

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Hi biggerdave I want to avoid the forced Home update but there is no application.ini file on my Windows Vista PC on the path you quoted. Have you any idea why not? Is it possible just to create one if so can you quote what is in the folder.

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Thanks for reply I am running as admin and have ticked unhide but there is just a notepad file called application which says this in it:

"; application.ini
;
; The 'startup' ini-file for the XUL app.
;
; Rijn Buve
; (C) 2006-2011, TomTom BV

[App]
; This field specifies your organization's name. This field is recommended,
; but optional.
Vendor=TomTom

; This field specifies your application's name. This field is required.
Name=HOME

; This field specifies your application's version. This field is optional.
Version=2.9.2.2837

; This field specifies your application's build ID (timestamp). This field is
; required.
BuildID=20120828070344

; This field specifies a compact copyright notice for your application. This
; field is optional.
Copyright=Copyright (C) 2006-2011, TomTom BV

; per

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ID=home2@tomtom.com

[Gecko]
; This field is required. It specifies the minimum Gecko version that this
; application requires. Specifying 1.8 matches all releases with a version
; prefixed by 1.8 (e.g., 1.8a4, 1.8b, 1.8.2).
MinVersion=1.9

; This field is optional. It specifies the maximum Gecko version that this
; application requires. It should be specified if your application uses
; unfrozen interfaces. Specifying 1.8 matches all releases with a version
; prefixed by 1.8 (e.g., 1.8a4, 1.8b, 1.8.2).
MaxVersion=1.9.*

[Shell]
; This field specifies the location of your application's main icon with file
; extension excluded. NOTE: Unix style file separators are required. This
; field is optional.
; Icon=chrome/icons/default/simple

[XRE]
; Likely to be the only way that DOM Inspector is going to be made to work
; DEBUG_ONLY
EnableExtensionManager=1 "

Its there .. under version ..

change the 2.9.2.2837 to read

3.9.2.2837

then click save

you obviously have your system set NOT to show the last 3 letters of a file ...

so the .ini is not shown .. and I'll bet when you look at documents they don't have .doc on the end either

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Thanks very much Entwood and Biggerdave now working fine! Incidentally do you know how I can set my PC to show the last 3 letters of a file please?

Thanks for that .. looks like I was amending my post just as you were posting the answer !!

]This is so cool,I get roped back into updating a bunch of devices and at the first hurdle (home wants me to login) a simple read in here has the solution. Job well done guys :-)