Disabling automatic update notification

Hello, in the previous version, you could disable update notifications with mms.cfg, but this does not seem to work anymore. Is there another way to do it? It's not enough to disable it manually from the settings. I'm talking about the Windows version 10.1 that was just released.

Ok, I think I got this figured out.
Based on a forum user from here:
http://www.appdeploy.com/packages/detail.asp?id=1382
Under the notes section a user states:
When you created mms.cfg with disabled update, flash settings still show you that Auto-Update is turned on ( http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager05.htm l ). But accordance to Adobe guidelines, incoming trafic for updates will be disabled (it won't tell you about updates anymore).
However, if you want to remove check mark as well, you need to take settings.sol file from APPDATAFOLDER\Macromedia\Flash Player\macromedia.com\support\flashplayer\sys and spread it to each user in the same folder (with Active Setup for example). Now, not only technicaly, but also visualy update is turned off!
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So apparently the Settings Manager page does not reflect the true settings if your mms.cfg file is correctly configured. The only way to test this is to run a packet analyzer and attempt to hit a page that uses flash: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/167/16701594.html
Testing auto-update notification settings
Administrators can verify the mms.cfg configuration has disabled auto-update by using a packet sniffer with the following test:
In mms.cfg, set AutoUpdateDisable=0 to allow auto-update. Verify that auto-update is enabled in Settings Manager.
Add the auto-update setting:
AutoUpdateInterval=0
With this setting, Flash Player requests the version file every time it starts and the request will appear in the network request traffic.
Open a web page with Flash content to start Flash Player. A simple page with a single piece of Flash content is best, to minimize the network traffic in the packet sniffer log. The packet sniffer will show the auto-update request traffic to http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/
Note: Avoid using www.macromedia.com as your test page, since the auto-update request will be lost in the other file requests.
Set the AutoUpdateDisable to 1 to disable auto-update notification.
Open a web page with Flash content to start Flash Player. There should be no version file request traffic.
I have tested this on a Win7x64 computer and analyzed the packets. No packets for http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/ were found. Let me know if anyone else can confirm this.
Thanks.

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