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Expand Up @@ -258,6 +258,7 @@ The following tables describe all available settings in the `admin-settings.json
| `displayedOnboarding` | | If `value` is set to `true`, the onboarding survey will not be displayed to new users. Setting `value` to `false` has no effect. | Docker Desktop version 4.30 and later |
| `desktopTerminalEnabled` | | If `value` is set to `false`, developers cannot use the Docker terminal to interact with the host machine and execute commands directly from Docker Desktop. | |
|`exposeDockerAPIOnTCP2375`| Windows only| Exposes the Docker API on a specified port. If `value` is set to true, the Docker API is exposed on port 2375. Note: This is unauthenticated and should only be enabled if protected by suitable firewall rules.| |
| `silentModulesUpdate` | | If `value` is set to `true`, Docker Desktop automatically updates components that don't require a restart. For example, the Docker CLI or Docker Scout components. | Docker Desktop version 4.46 and later. |
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When I created the setting, I hadn’t realized it would be publicly visible.
Perhaps we should have named it automaticComponentsUpdate. 🤔

@KatTomrushka what do you think? Is this a problem we need to fix?


### File sharing and emulation

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- **General** settings in [Docker Desktop GUI](/manuals/desktop/settings-and-maintenance/settings.md)
- Settings Management: `configurationFileVersion` setting in the [`admin-settings.json` file](/manuals/enterprise/security/hardened-desktop/settings-management/configure-json-file.md)

### Automatically update components

| Default value | Accepted values | Format |
|---------------|-----------------|----------|
| `true` | `true`, `false` | Boolean |

- **Description:** Allow Docker Desktop to automatically update components that don't require a restart.
- **OS:** {{< badge color=blue text="All" >}}
- **Use case:** Automatically updates key Docker Desktop components such as Docker Compose, Docker Scout, the Docker CLI.
- **Configure this setting with:**
- **General settings** in [Docker Desktop GUI](/manuals/desktop/settings-and-maintenance/settings.md#software-updates)
- Settings Management: `silentModulesUpdate` setting in the [`admin-settings.json` file](/manuals/enterprise/security/hardened-desktop/settings-management/configure-json-file.md)
- Settings Management: **Automatically update components** setting in the [Admin Console](/manuals/enterprise/security/hardened-desktop/settings-management/configure-admin-console.md)

## Resources settings

### CPU limit
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