How to stop winget from automatically installing postgres on my machine

Question

Am on Windows 11. Once in a while, winget, the Windows Package manager, suddenly begins installing Postgres v14 without my consent as seen in this screenshot . I already have Postgres 12 and do not want an automatic install of v14. How do I prevent it from doing so?

Answer 1

The Windows Package Manager (aka WinGet) is a command line tool. It doesn't take action without a user running a command. There are several open-source utilities that leverage WinGet and one of those may have automatic processes.

I suggest looking to see if you have something else installed that is calling WinGet programmatically.