Updates could provide compatibility fixes for newer DAWs or operating systems. Remember to check for updates for your plugin first if they are giving you problems. Your DAW will rescan and load the plugins in your Components or VST folder, and ignore the ones in the "Disabled" folders. Simply drag the associated plugin to the respective ‘Disabled’ folder if you do not wish to load the plugin or have problems loading it.Create a folder as seen in the picture above labelled Components (Disabled) or VST (Disabled).If you have a huge collection of plugins but you do not use them all at the same time, you can waste a lot of time waiting for your DAW/host to scan all of them. There some things that you can do to make managing plugins easier. HAL is Hardware Abstraction Layer and you should not be needing to change anything there. You might come across another folder labelled VST3, this is for VST3 plugins which are not as common as of yet. component file to the Components folder in your audio plugins folder. This is the actual file required for the plugin.