Cannot Use Arduino IDE After Updating Library

Sometimes my Arduino Uno prompts me to update my libraries. Whenever I ignore these prompts, the program just bricks and prevents me from clicking on anything, where it produces a sound when I click. Also, it does that sometimes if I go with the updates.

The software acts normally after shutting Arduino IDE using task manager, but I don't wanna rely on that long term. Would be super grateful if someone has an answer to this :slight_smile:

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We only know you are on windows because you mentioned task manager but other than that we dont know too much about your system.

File -> Preferences -> remove the tick for "Check for updates on startup"

Up till now, I have never been prompted about any updates (after I removed the tick).