How to delete Opera Autoupdate folder in Downloads

If you use the Opera browser, you'll see the Opera Autoupdate folder always appear in the Downloads folder or other folder on the computer. Even though you've deleted them, the folder still reappears after that. Many people have chosen to remove the browser and reinstall Opera, but that folder still appears. This directory contains crash report files in Opera browser and Opera_autoupdate file. Opera has added a scheduled task to automatically check for new versions of Opera for errors and update the browser regularly. But in fact, we do not need this directory. Here's how to delete the Opera Autoupdate folder on your computer.

Instructions to delete Opera Autoupdate folder on the computer

Step 1:

At the interface on the computer we enter the keyword Task Scheduler in the search bar and then click on the results found in the interface.

Step 2:

Switch to the new user interface, click on Task Scheduler Library . Then, in the middle pane of the user interface, find all opera scheduled Autoupdate tasks .

Step 3:

Next, right-click each Opera scheduled task, then select Disable in the displayed list or we can also choose Delete to delete also.

Step 4:

Finally, go back to the Download folder or some other folder and choose to delete the Opera Autoupdate folder. In addition, we can also wait for the upcoming Opera version to fix the Opera Autoupdate folder error displayed on the computer.