You can not NOT update, it updates automatically as soon as you start up steam.

So you'll be stuck with it like everyone else eventually, I've posted a list of things that need to be streamlined and renamed on their steam forums.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forum....php?t=1242374

The colors can be fixed latter with a new skin hence why I havent brought it up.


Here's how to get the old new message sound back

Dl it from here
http://forums.steampowered.com/forum...1#post14635728

Once it's downloaded, go into it's properties and set it to read only and then put it in steam/friends and overwrite the new sound and restart.