Origin keeps forcing me to download EA app

IF ANYONE KNOWS AN UP-TO-DATE WAY TO KEEP ORIGIN WORKING PLEASE REPLY

skip to update section at the bottom- these methods have all been blocked.

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@Mardoin69 wrote:

@sis21721 

For anyone who wants to continue using Origin client while...hopefully....the EA client Dev team gets their half-baked client fixed;

The update to the EA client is problematic for a lot of people for a bunch of their games. Solution is to re-install the Origin client and apply a fix to it. After having installed the EA client, it uninstalls the original Origin client. But, you can get the last good working Origin client installer on TechSpot;
https://www.techspot.com/downloads/5783-origin.html

Keep the EA client app as it's needed for verification in some games. But, you'll want to change some of it's settings. Disable 'start with Windos. Change game install directory to the Origin clients game install directory... \Orign Games. Link steam if you have games bought through Steam for EA/Origin client. Restart PC after all this so all these changes are saved in Windows Registry.

Now install the Origin client, log in....it'll self update and softlock due to that stupid EA client notice. That's ok. Close out Origin client. Run task manager and kill the Origin web helper service.....it keeps running in background. Now open file explorer and change view settings to 'show hidden system files and folders.'

In the C: drive, you should now see a folder called "Program Data." Open it and go to the Origin folder.......

Stop origin client loading EA app message;

1. Open C:\ProgramData\Origin\local.xml in notepad
2. Add new key there:

<Setting key="MigrationDisabled" type="1" value="true" />

This should go at bottom just above the last line which is "</Settings>."
Save the file and exit. Now launch Origin and that stupid notice will be gone. Exit and Restart your PC again to finalize settings.

Congrats...you should be able to play your games properly now.

If a game is not working correctly, click it in Origin client library, click the gear icon and select 'Repair.' If it still doesn't seem to work, try uninstalling and re-installing.

If it's a game bought through steam, you'll install it using steam. Then launch Origin client, select that game in the library.... it'll show a 'download' button still. Click it, Origin will find the steam install and change the button to 'Play.' Always play your games using the Origin Client and the 'play' button for that game in the Origin client library. Some games will work properly using the desktop shortcut but, others will try an launch the EA client.....which we know can be problematic for some games. Still, some games maybe throw errors if you don't have the EA client background task running so, for those, run the EA client, minimize it, then use the Origin client to launch the game.

Special thanks go out to user @tom_looken for pointing me to the code line for fixing Origin client.

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I combined this and @Mardoin69's reply about appdata, I can play my games normally (w/ origin) now, I am going to restart and will update this reply if a restart resets origin and brings the pop-up back, which happened to me before.

UPDATE: This seems to work (for now)

So for anyone who doesn't want to risk losing games or who wants to use the client they're accustomed to, follow the steps Mardoin69 has provided,

-remember to check in Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Local\Origin\ThinSetup\10.5.119.52718 and delete the thin setup there.

-In most of these folders with the thinsetup file, there is also a file named "UpdateTool" - if removing the thinsetup only doesn't get rid of the pop-up, get rid of these update files too. 

UPDATE: This doesn't work anymore either. They have some system now that seems to respond to the change in local.xml, and has a response that I believe causes the pop-up to remain. I've tried deleting all webhelper files, got all the updatetool and thinsetups, even got rid of guardfiles as I suspected these guarded the thinsetup.