I'm afraid that there is no way, on a stock iPad, to get rid of the update badge on the settings icon without doing the update. There are tweaks available for jailbroken iPads that will do this.To get rid of the annoying software update notification on the Settings icon if you don't want to upgrade the software? <img src="http://www.ipadforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=48653"/> Sent from my iPhone 4S or iPad 3rd gen, whichever I happened to have in my hands at the time, using iPF.net