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I'm the administrative user on my Windows 10 computer. My wife is a strandard user.

ONLY my wife is getting this annoying nagware dialog about how wonderful it would be to install Logitech Options software. Naturally I don't want to install the suggested software.

The dialog looks like this: enter image description here

I have searched up & down in task manager, but can't seem to find what process is responsible for displaying this dialog. I'm guessing it must be some kind of custom notification Windows 10 is so fond of.

Regardless, how do I get rid of this nagware?

Edit (solution): I removed windows\system32\LogiLDA.dll

velis
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  1. Click Start
  2. Type msconfig.exe, push enter.
  3. Click the 'Startup' tab.
  4. Uncheck the box next to "Logitech Download Assistant".
Brad
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Take a look in Settings > System > Notifications & actions. If Logitech is listed among notification senders you can set its notifications off.

spike_66
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You can use Autoruns to find it: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns

This is what i had to do:

As already mentioned removed this DLL: %systemroot%\system32\LogiLDA.dll (C:\Windows\system32\LogiLDA.dll)

Then started Regedit.exe end removed the entry: "Logitech Download Assistant" from: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

user1139648
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Logitech engineers keep coming up with more creative and hacky ways to force the update and nagging pop ups. With the new versions, removing the dll file or the registry key no longer works as those they keep getting reinstated by the software or the driver updates.

I still want some of the functionality of the software, to define and remap actions of the extra mouse buttons, but I don't want all the nagware and pop ups that they keep adding in the newer versions.

So for my case, the best solution I found so far is to install an old and cleaner version of logitech options (7.12) and prevent it in the firewall from accessing the internet to get updates.

Justino Figueiredo
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Disabling it via process explorer \ msconfig won't help, because there is other exe file which is launching other logi executables, what you need to do is:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns Select there "Download Autoruns and Autorunsc" a trusted software link from Microsoft.

Then in "Autoruns" app find entry called "OptionsPlusUpdaterService" this is what starts all Logi other executables, disable it and restart computer. Logi should be gone from autostart.

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