Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Need to know your Fences full version number. Also, do you have IObit Software Updater or any other application which manage your software version status. If you do please set Fences to be ignore by it.

Thank you.
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Fences 4.21. The pop-up is not part of any software updater, and I do not have any such updator installed on my computer, at least to my knowledge. It is an advertisement from stardock, And most Likely installed with the program, and there has to be a registry key to edit to remove it.

I may have chosen the wrong word to describe the situation. It is not a pop-up in the pure sense of the word, it is a splash screen that appears during the initial boot-up of my computer. There are 2 that splash, Start 11 and Fences. I currently use Start 10 and Fences 4. It is not part of any software updater but is an advertisement from Star-Dock to get me to update the version. I am not sure if there is a cost associated with upgrade, and since I do not plan to update this computer to Windows 11, I am happy with what I have especially if there is a cost. My point is that I want control of my computer completely and do not like sharing that control with other software companies. I do not understand why I need to post a screenshot of what is perfectly obvious. I just want to know the registry key to eliminate to stop it from happening. Never the less, I have posted the Fences one here.