Stop automatically installing the new Outlook

Anonymous
2024-05-23T21:36:54+00:00

I'm not using "the new Outlook", I'm staying with the "classic Outlook". Since I don't use it, I have to delete the app. To my surprise, it re-installs itself after a period of time. It's super annoying since I have to keep deleting it How do I stop this from happening?

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-10-09T18:53:44+00:00

    Instead of deleting the json files in that folder

    C:\Users<Youruser>\AppData\Local\Packages\microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\Migration

    I just edited all those files' values from whatever codes there are to "F_ck" (of course the real word, not a masked one). Then I edited those files to be "read-only". Now it has stopped auto installing.

    Hope this helps.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-10-09T21:00:48+00:00

    That's not working.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-10-09T21:02:39+00:00

    Did you uninstall outlook(new) first before messing up with those four files in the folder?

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-10-10T00:30:14+00:00

    Yep. mail works twice and then every third time it's outlook again.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-10-10T01:44:45+00:00

    let me know if you find a way to stop/block new outlook and just use normal mail app please.

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