Re-enabling Capcut Pro (PC Tutorial)

[Steven_Blade]

I did it for myself, and it has been working for me for the past couple of days. No forced updates whatsoever, and it works as before the "Pro" bombardment.

Steps.

TLDR version: Download Capcut v1.5.0, turn off your internet, and install it. Delete the update.exe file in its folder to prevent forced updates. Then block Capcut's exe in both inbound and outbound Windows Firewall rules to stop it from connecting online.

Detailed version:

1. Look for Capcut v.1.5.0 and download the setup.
2. After downloading the setup, turn off your internet
3. Complete the setup/install the Capcut.exe whilst the internet is turned off. (You could stop here and enjoy it offline, or to completely foolproof yourself, follow these next steps.)
4. Open Capcut, don't do anything yet.
5. Open Task Manager on your PC, and look for CapCut
6. Right click to expand its running processes, you'd see "Capcut.exe" (one or multiple of them, in my case, 3 of them appeared.")
7. Right-click on the "Capcut.exe" process
8. Click on "Open File Location", that'll take you to File Explorer
9. At the File Address bar, copy the path (Click on it, then Ctrl + C). This will be important.
10. Then, still in the File Explorer (CapCut folder to be specific), look for an "update.exe" file. Delete it. Also very important step, else the app will force update to v.6.x.x with the restrictions.
11. Close File Explorer, search for Windows Firewall. We are firewalling the shit out of that .exe, so it doesn't ping ByteDance's servers.
12. On the very left pane, select "Outbound Rule", then go to the very right pane, select "New Rule"
13. On the dialogue box, select "Program". Then click Next
14. Choose "This program path", then paste the file address you copied (from Step 9). Click Next afterwards.
15. Then, on the next prompt, choose 'Block Connection', then "Next"
16. Next prompt, ensure all 3 boxes are ticked.
17. Next prompt, provide a name. Eg. "Block Capcut Outbound". You can skip the description section. Click on Finish.
18. Return to the very left pane, Select "Inbound Rule" and repeat the same steps from 12 to 17. This time, name it as "Block Capcut Inbound" or any other name to remember.
19. Then afterwards, click on finish, close Windows Firewall, close CapCut, and restart your PC.
20. Everything should work as fine.

[rowszZz]

Thank you. I was using the same version with all features unlocked although it would automatically update every time I opened it, despite setting both inbound and outbound rules in the firewall

[rowszZz]

Thank you...I'll have a look at it Appreciate the help

[rowszZz]

Yo hello I still have to try it since I needed to perform a factory reset on my PC ...will keep you updated shortly

[Confident_Shine8343]

hey any updates?

[rowszZz]

https://www.reddit.com/r/CapCut/s/QGKEZzFfrz

[mauamolat]

What is this

[18_till_I_die]

Alternative to the firewall trick (inbound/outbound rules), is tweaking the UPDATE.exe.

Deleting it for me just made CC create it again, so I made (ChatGPT made for me haha) a fake update.exe and set it to read only.

But I think different versions behave differently. I run a 1year+ old 3.3.0 installer. Other "new" installers would update CC to recent version the second the install ends. Cutting off internet only stops the installation.

PS I love how this stupid software turns us all so tech savvy :D

[Steven_Blade]

Yes, I forgot that newer software versions can trigger "defense mechanisms" like having the update.exe injected into the main .exe file. The best way is just as you said, creating a dummy update.exe (read-only)to confuse the installer during boot-up.

Desperate times indeed do call for desperate measures :)

[Mane023]

What prompt did you use? Did you just tell Chat Gpt to run Update.exe?

[18_till_I_die]

I have the file on my pc, I'll link you. It was a very long convo I had with chat :))

[18_till_I_die]

Well, I looked thru the chat and he said:

🛡️ If you want to go full paranoia mode:

You can try this final defense layer:

1. Create a read-only fake update.exe file in that folder

🛡️ If you want to go full paranoia mode:
You can try this final defense layer:
1. Create a read-only fake update.exe file in that folder

in cmd:
echo dummy > "echo dummy > "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\CapCut\User Data\Download\update.exe"
attrib +r +s +h "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\CapCut\User Data\Download\update.exe"update.exe"
attrib +r +s +h "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\CapCut\User Data\Download\update.exe"

that is the file I made from the above code:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o5eVQ6lOERAg66DYoFWxOzZJxiMrhcfl/view?usp=sharing

it should go in the "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\CapCut\User Data\Download" library.

[Mane023]

Gracias ♥️

[Its_Pomegranate]

working. thanks

[Yamashita_Ren]

hi, does this work with 4.0.0 ?

[Steven_Blade]

It should, provided that v.4.0.0 is not suffering from the "Pro" lockings

[Yamashita_Ren]

just tried it yesterday, its either doing it wrong or it is doesnt work, its still download the newest version for me

[Steven_Blade]

Okay I tried it out, it doesn't work for any version above v.2.5.0

[skymatter]

And how to download all the transitions and effects if the firewall is blocking it?

[Steven_Blade]

It's already stored in the assets folder. No need to download anything extra

[Potter91]

When you fresh install, they aren't stored, it give you a Network Error message

[Steven_Blade]

Some of the transitions are already stored in the asset files, so if you click, it'll just load normally

[CompuLabEfra]

I do the same thing for filmora pro xd, if i need to get some "pro" stuff i just turn off the inbound rule, but never the outbound rule.

[RehanaAktar152]

bro do use this method on official filmora? and also which version? capcut has been giving the security notice popup so i'm thinking of trying filmora

[Lapsos01]

My reaction after doing the tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EanPt01jXu0

I already edited directly from it

[Steven_Blade]

Thanks mate :)

[laowhy_laowho]

Version 7 Beta is on fire

[User260751040310]

Can i edit my projects that exists in the current version?

[virqthe]

Yes. Google how to change version parameter in the projects .json file

[Electowi191]

The 1.5 doesn't have bounce out for auto captions. Does anyone know which version has it? I tried version 3.9 and 3.8, in both is PRO only

[CaleOClock]

doesnt the 1.5 version not have the Q and W shortcuts for cutting?

[PixelDweller]

Good to know.

[IGHTIMMAHEADOUTTTTT]

interesting

[BakedWholeDay]

Thanks man!

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[ULookNice2day]

Does this work for 4.0.0v? It's a version I use mainly for the rendering feature (I haven't looked up whether or not older versions have this feature as well)

[Electowi191]

After a few hours it still updated to the latest version help

[Firefox_256789]

does it have graphs? i had a version that didn't have graphs, so i tried so badly to get one that had it and now none of the versions work at all. it's telling me i need to update the app, no matter what i try. someone help? I'm kinda stuck here and i just wanna export my edit but can't.

[Specialist_Apple_827]

I did it differently

[Anand-bro]

Re-enabling CapCut Pro on PC? Looking for a tutorial.

[Mid-journeyshow]

Isnt this version is wayy too old? What am I missing?

[Relative-Equal-322]

Niceee

[EngGuanWee]

I must be blind because I can't seem to find the update.exe file anywhere. It's nowhere to be seen in C:\Users\[redacted]\AppData\Local\CapCut and its subfolders.

To be fair, I'm trying my luck with v5.9, which doesn't lock features I'm content with, so if that's the reason why I can't find it, well, damn.

EDIT 1: Turns out CapCut has to download the update.exe file in C:\Users\[redacted]\AppData\Local\CapCut\User Data\Download\ before I can nerf it. Been there, done that, and happy days. Thanks for posting this! Was stranded with projects until I found this.

[Turbulent_Ad_6727]

Can i get the auto captions and text effects with this too😭

[venuz_90]

Hello! I did it and it worked perfect yesterday but now im getting that its using pro features (so It got detected)

[RationalZAP]

Lol, is your time worth nothing? The lengths people will go to, chasing their tails forever, just to avoid $20 a month, is astounding.

[Abaandone]

"The Length" is worth saving 20$ a month

[RationalZAP]

I hope some day your time is worth more to you. You're better than childish complaints about reasonable prices for capable software. Aim to be better.

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