Mac App Store: The Mac will only. After you download the app and move it to your Applications folder, launch it. You will see a warning like this one: Click OK. This does not open the app. Question: Q: To stop a download on Mac (of Mac OS sierra). It no longer appears on the App store but still appears to be downloading in launchpad.
Yesterday when I went to my iTunes account information to change my billing address, I saw a button “Download Now” on top and it said I have some items awaiting download. I clicked on the button out of curiosity and suddenly saw a long queue of apps and movies being downloaded to my Macbook.
I don’t understand why the iTunes on my Mac downloaded my previously purchased iPhone apps without any notice. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to stop or cancel those downloads, so you might see your free hard drive space running out very soon. Here are the steps to stop the iTunes downloads.
1. Open iTunes app, you will see a download icon on top right of the window. Click on the icon, a pop-up window will appear with a list of pending downloads. You will be able to delete movies only from the list. Just select the items, right click and choose Delete.
2. In case you have apps being downloaded, you can’t delete them using the above solution. You will have the option to pause downloads but they will resume the next time you open iTunes. To fix this issue, you will need to close iTunes, open Finder, navigate to Music -> iTunes -> iTunes Media. Now, you will see some folders corresponding to your downloads and a plist file. You’ll just need to delete this file and uncompleted downloads. You can also delete files in the Mobile Applications and Movies folders.
That’s it. Did you have the same issue and how did you solve it?
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Help! Windows 10 keeps installing strange apps, can’t stop it!
'Do you guys know how to stop newly updated Windows 10 from installing new app updates? Quite a lot space in my PC has been taken by these app updates. And it even installed some unwanted apps. If you have method to solve this problem, please help me. Thanks very much.'
'My computer keeps download and installing new app updates without asking me for permission. I don’t really want to install those strange apps such as Candy Crush. Square app laptop mac. Do you know how to stop it? Please help me.'
Windows system will automatically download and install driver updates and app updates after updating Windows system into new version so to avoid compatible issue. And it’s quite normal for Windows 10 to install new app updates after the Windows 10 anniversary update. However, unwanted apps may also be installed in your PC. Here in the following passages, you’ll find effective method to stop Windows 10 installing unwanted apps without losing any data.
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Step 1. Turn off automatic app updates in Windows 10
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Open Store > Click user icon at the top of the screen;
Click Settings and turn off Update apps automatically in App updates section.
Step 2. Block Candy Crush or other unwanted app in Windows 10
Here you have two access to block app update from Registry tweak or block unwanted apps in Windows 10 update. You can either choose one method to block apps in Windows 10 now.
#1. Block app updates from Registry tweak
Press Windows + R, type: regedit and hit Enter; Registry Editor file will show up in C:Windows directory and you can navigate to the folder and run regedit.exe directly; Then open Registry Editor and go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftWindowsStore
Create a new 32-bit DWORD value named AutoDownload and set it to 2 to disable app auto-update; After this, restart Windows 10.
#2. Block unwanted apps including Candy Crush from Windows 10 update
Press Win + R and open Run dialog;
Type: secpol.msc and hit Enter;
Local Security Policy app will appear and select Application Control Policies in the letf, then click Applocker;
Click Packaged app Rules, right click the right pane and select Create new rule;
Click Next when the Create new rule wizard shows up;
On the Permissions page, set Action to Deny, leave User or Group as Everyone;
Click Next, click Use an installed packaged app as reference > Select;
Select Windows Spotlight(Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager) and click OK in the app list;
Move the slider to the Package Name option as shown below, then click Create.
Step 3. Clean-up junk files including unwanted apps from Windows 10
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Step 1. DOWNLOAD and install EaseUS Tools M. Select 'System Cleanup' on the main screen.
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Step 2. Select the type of junk files you want to scan and click 'Analyze'.
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Step 3. Identify and select useless files and click 'Clean up' to remove those files from your PC or laptop.