Can I launch TWS and PREVENT it from auto-updating to a newer version?

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d0rian

The most recent STABLE version (10.19.1f) of TWS is buggy as hell -- pretty much unusable for me -- but as best I can tell there's no way to ROLL BACK to the prior Stable version of TWS.

I do still have an installer file for a recent version (10.12.2s), so I completely uninstalled the new/buggy verison, BUT the launcher for the 'old' version auto-updates to the unusable newer one.

Is there any way to prevent it from doing that?
 
https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/tws.php#tws-software
The Offline installation will not update automatically.
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Unfortunately I don't know of any archive where you can get old versions. o_O:(

d0rian said:
The most recent STABLE version (10.19.1f) of TWS is buggy as hell -- pretty much unusable for me -- but as best I can tell there's no way to ROLL BACK to the prior Stable version of TWS.

I do still have an installer file for a recent version (10.12.2s), so I completely uninstalled the new/buggy verison, BUT the launcher for the 'old' version auto-updates to the unusable newer one.

Is there any way to prevent it from doing that?
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I keep meticulous backups for myself, but was thinking about creating a public repo of the installations on github for the community. More than anything though, I'm surprised IB doesn't do this themselves.

ZBZB said:
Bob111 on this site used to archive all TWS versions.
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Well, the "tough love" answer is you should have been making backups. OTOH... there's probably some common good to knowing exactly what "bugs" you've found.

Maybe you can isolate the bug(s), create clear/reproducible test cases and petition IB to fix them. If you have a few hundred million in your account I'm pretty sure they'll listen.

But at the end of the day I wouldn't worry about it... the Fed will eventually print more money and solve the problem.

d0rian said:
Right, except that the current "Offline" version has been updated to the buggy most-recent Stable version...so good note for next time, but doesn't help right now...
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My latest update also messed things up for me, all the fx quote matrix symbols are gone, restored to a previous layout which did not help and in the end had to re-populate all symbols manually.. ;-(
 
d0rian said:
Right, except that the current "Offline" version has been updated to the buggy most-recent Stable version...so good note for next time, but doesn't help right now...
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I might have an older version available, what's your OS?
 
M.W. said:
My latest update also messed things up for me, all the fx quote matrix symbols are gone, restored to a previous layout which did not help and in the end had to re-populate all symbols manually.. ;-(
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Finding genuinely good QA people is basically sifting through a huge "market for lemons".
 
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