diff --git a/gui/griffon-app/views/com/muwire/gui/MainFrameView.groovy b/gui/griffon-app/views/com/muwire/gui/MainFrameView.groovy
index 17093550..3fc4a5d5 100644
--- a/gui/griffon-app/views/com/muwire/gui/MainFrameView.groovy
+++ b/gui/griffon-app/views/com/muwire/gui/MainFrameView.groovy
@@ -131,7 +131,6 @@ class MainFrameView {
         settings = application.context.get("ui-settings")
         int rowHeight = application.context.get("row-height")
         int treeRowHeight = application.context.get("tree-row-height")
-        MuWireSettings muWireSettings = application.context.get("muwire-settings")
         
         def screenDimensions = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize()
         int mainFrameX = (int)Math.min(1400.0d, screenDimensions.getWidth())
@@ -745,11 +744,9 @@ class MainFrameView {
                 panel (border: etchedBorder(), constraints : BorderLayout.SOUTH) {
                     borderLayout()
                     panel (constraints : BorderLayout.WEST) {
-                        if (!muWireSettings.disableUpdates) {
-                            button(text: "", icon: imageIcon('/update.png'), toolTipText: trans("TOOLTIP_UPDATE"),
-                                    enabled: bind { model.updateAvailableEvent != null || model.updateDownloadedEvent != null },
-                                    showUpdateAction)
-                        }
+                        button(text: "", icon: imageIcon('/update.png'), toolTipText: trans("TOOLTIP_UPDATE"),
+                                enabled: bind { model.updateAvailableEvent != null || model.updateDownloadedEvent != null },
+                                showUpdateAction)
                         button(text: "", icon: imageIcon('/edit_profile.png'), toolTipText: trans("TOOLTIP_PROFILE_EDITOR"),
                             editProfileAction)
                     }