Extensions and Updates, Environment, Options Dialog Box
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Use this page to set options for how Visual Studio performs updates and how extensions are updated and discovered.
Automatically check for updates
When checked, Visual Studio will check periodically for updates to itself, installed SDKs and tools, and extensions, and display notifications in the menu bar when updates are available. For more information, see Notifications.
Automatically update extensions
When checked, updates to extensions are made without prompting. For more information, see Finding and Using Visual Studio Extensions.
Load user extensions when running as administrator
For more information, see Finding and Using Visual Studio Extensions.
Additional Extension Galleries
An Enterprise feature that enables support for galleries of proprietary extensions. For more information, see Private Galleries.