You could also uninstall Bandlab Assistant (BA) and reinstall it when you need to get an update.  CbB seems to run fine with BA uninstalled.

Rasure
 
That doesn't actually work as mentioned here as when you reopen the app it adds the registry value back, but meng is on to it :-) 

Yikes. That's straight out of "Programming: Worst Practices 101". That programmer should be marched out and...I was going to say "shot" but that's unduly cruel. More likely it was an inexperienced junior coder who thought he'd had a good idea. Or his previous job was writing rootkits for Sony.
 
Guess I'd have known that if I rebooted more than once a week.

I removed the run value in registry and rebooted, seems fine now.

Nope, that still doesn't work. Next time you run BA it will just add a new registry entry.

Quick 'n dirty workaround: rename update.exe to something else to prevent it from running.
 
c:\users\{user_name}\appdata\local\bandlab-assistant\update.exe

I think we should hold off on jumping on board 100% at this point. Lets' let others be "beta testers" 
I uninstalled all the Bandlab stuff and will just give this time. 
It's a bit to much like a X1 release to me. 

I think it is more like an attitude in the software industry of the 21st century. The engineers piss out software that dominates the users (intelligent programs!) instead of asking them what they want to do. Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, they are all good prototypes for this malpractice. More and more software slows down your startup, starts processes for things that happen rarely, eats up your computer and network resources. And most malicious is the way they obscure the possiblities for users to turn off the plagues. Unfortunately many of the programs I liked have gone into this direction and IT IS SURELY NOT THE END of that evil!
 
Oh God, how much do I like to live in this fantastic century!
In the past I liked software and the internet, because it made things easier and faster. Nowadays I spend so much time to handle the hassles of software (automatic updates, internet authentications, installers, workarounds, fixing errors, virus protection ...).
 
Marc
 
P.S.: Sorry, just an emotional drop out after an automatic Windows update at the wrong time!
 

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your issue with BandLab Assistant, but it can presently be disabled in the Task Manager Startup menu. It's disguised under the name of "Update" (publisher Github) and will then only run when needed from desktop.
 

Keith4568
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your issue with BandLab Assistant, but it can presently be disabled in the Task Manager Startup menu. It's disguised under the name of "Update" (publisher Github) and will then only run when needed from desktop.
 

Yes, that's what I just did . . . at least until I see an actual need for it to be part of my Windows startup

I rather prefere when software update is checked opening the program (maximum once a day), than having more and more startup/service processes. It is even better if you can specifiy how often the program looks for updates (e.g. once a week/month or so). And most important, there should be always the possibility to postpone the update and that's why there should be a note what is included in the update.
 
Best regards Marc