Unfortunally, chaning this setting did fix my issue, but caused another one, the component backup settings are reset to server default, which are default=1 (aka DO component backups). I’ve created seperate client configs on the server and set the component backups to default=0 for the servers i really don’t want this to happen on.
This is probably done by design, but just a heads up for other people reading this, if you uncheck the Allow client to change settings checkbox, no matter what “the allow users to configure components to backup” checkbox is set to, and what you set this to on the client, it will be overwritten by the default setting on the server under Settings -> General -> Advanced -> Windows components backup configuration. settings this to default=0 backs nothing up, default=1 enables the default file backup of windows components (such as SQL).