How to prevent "Update Disabled" dialog from showing on startup?

[smaglio81]

Type: Bug

Run VS Code / Insiders as an Admin and this pop-up will occur:

I've set all the settings linked to in the (former) gear icon to a form of "off", but the pop-up keeps occurring.

How can I prevent the "Update Disabled" dialog from occurring when I start code-insiders as an admin?

Thanks

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VS Code version: Code - Insiders 1.115.0-insider (fc23f2d, 2026-03-31T17:13:42+01:00)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100
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[dmitrivMS]

Working on fixing this.