The 'Secure Preferences' one you won't be able to edit though as it's protected and your changes will be reverted probably. Might be something in the 'Preferences' or 'Local State' or 'Secure Preferences' files. You can then close Opera, delete the new profile, and rename your old one back, and then investigate the files. When Opera starts up and creates a new profile, if the red notification goes away, then you know there's some stuck setting or something in your profile. Then, close Opera and rename the profile folder. Goto the URL opera://about and take note of the 'profile' path. Or, it could be something else that Opera checks. The red notificaiton might come from checking some other Opera site that tries to do an extension update check or some of Opera's components at opera://components. It might default to always showing in the face of some update error. You can also always launch Opera with the -disable-update command-line switch mentioned in the same post to see if that helps.īut, the notification might still remain. You could try creating the OPERA_AUTOUPDATE_DISABLED environment variable for your Windows user as mentioned here and restart Opera (or log out and back in and then restart Opera).

So, those are expected and you'll have to update manually with the offline installer each time.Īs for the red update notification despite you having the latest version, I'm not sure why it's there and how to get rid of it.

It's definitely going to happen if you renamed/deleted opera_autoupdate.exe.

The 'error occurred while checking updates' message will happen if is blocked in your country.

Opera GX 104.0.4944.80 instal