Vortex keeps installing extensions on its own

[Eckee]

So I don't have any of these games and Vortex keeps installing them when it's launched. I keep deleting them but they reappear every time.

 

 

[Guest deleted34304850]

dont delete them then?

[Eckee]

dont delete them then?

that's your suggestion against bloat?

[Guest deleted34304850]

yes. that's my suggestion.

 

its not bloat they are part of vortex. if it detects they're missing it will redownload and install them. they don't do anything if you don't have the games.

with your windows system - have you systematically removed all the bits of it you don't use because "bloat"?

[megman69]

"with your windows system - have you systematically removed all the bits of it you don't use because "bloat"?"

Yes, there's a whole community devoted to de-bloating windows system and rightfully so. If "they don't do anything if you don't have the games" then there is no reason to occupy space in our system.

 

Now on the other hand if those extensions actually do something regardless of whether or not you have those games then that is a different story altogether and maybe someone here can explain to us what they are actually needed for if in fact they are needed.

 

Eckee, what I would suggest, which is what I have done, is the same process people who use Google Chrome have done to stop its permission-less automatic updates.

 

Go to your Vortex download directory. You will find a folder called "Site" (example: C:\Users\{User}\AppData\Roaming\Vortex\Downloads\Site) which is where these extensions files are automatically downloading every time you delete them and remove the extensions from Vortex.

 

Delete the "Site" folder in your Vortex download directory, then create an empty file. The easiest way to do that is right click in your Vortex download directory > New > Text Document. Rename the text document to "Site" then remove the .txt extension. You now have a blank file without an extension named "Site". The way windows operates, it cannot differentiate the folder from an extension-less file in the system structure and when Vortex tries to download the files into what it thinks is a folder named "Site" it is in fact trying to download the files into an empty file named "Site" which it cannot do.

 

Now when you open Vortex, it will complain that it can't install those extra extensions and you go about your day.

 

So far Vortex and all my other game mods have been running without issues, without these 4 extensions.

 

Don't ever let people like this, or anyone in general tell you to just accept what is given without question.

[showler]

Picky has said that those extensions do have a purpose even without the game installed.

 

If you do the things you suggest to prevent them loading, I suggest you NEVER seek support for Vortex since you are intentionally breaking it.

[Guest deleted34304850]

 

"with your windows system - have you systematically removed all the bits of it you don't use because "bloat"?"

Yes, there's a whole community devoted to de-bloating windows system and rightfully so. If "they don't do anything if you don't have the games" then there is no reason to occupy space in our system.

 

Now on the other hand if those extensions actually do something regardless of whether or not you have those games then that is a different story altogether and maybe someone here can explain to us what they are actually needed for if in fact they are needed.

 

Eckee, what I would suggest, which is what I have done, is the same process people who use Google Chrome have done to stop its permission-less automatic updates.

 

Go to your Vortex download directory. You will find a folder called "Site" (example: C:\Users\{User}\AppData\Roaming\Vortex\Downloads\Site) which is where these extensions files are automatically downloading every time you delete them and remove the extensions from Vortex.

 

Delete the "Site" folder in your Vortex download directory, then create an empty file. The easiest way to do that is right click in your Vortex download directory > New > Text Document. Rename the text document to "Site" then remove the .txt extension. You now have a blank file without an extension named "Site". The way windows operates, it cannot differentiate the folder from an extension-less file in the system structure and when Vortex tries to download the files into what it thinks is a folder named "Site" it is in fact trying to download the files into an empty file named "Site" which it cannot do.

 

Now when you open Vortex, it will complain that it can't install those extra extensions and you go about your day.

 

So far Vortex and all my other game mods have been running without issues, without these 4 extensions.

 

Don't ever let people like this, or anyone in general tell you to just accept what is given without question.

 

that's a HUGE yikes from me.

Please, mess up your own system -- do whatever you want -- but tellng someone else your fallacy, passed off as fact, is utterly loathesome.