Change the value of 0 to 1. Save changes and exit. Launch your Steam client again and hopefully, the global auto-updates will be turned off. Solution 5: Disabling Steam to start at startup. Another remedy is to disable Steam from starting up automatically

How to control Steam Auto Updates. First the bad news: the Steam client offers no setting to turn of automatic updates for all games. While that sounds bad, especially if you have hundreds of games in your library, it is not really that problematic as you

Select the Only update this game when I launch it option. Remember to disable your internet connection every time before starting the respective game. If your internet connection is disabled, Steam won’t be able to connect to the servers and the auto-up