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June 22, 2010

Disable Adobe Updater

I'm so thoroughly sick of every little application nagging me to install updates. Most of these are handled pretty well by Codestuff Starter. Adobe, of course, is a horse of a different color. It wants to constantly install updates to the Adobe PDF viewer, which I'm reasonably sure I don't need or want. So, I tried to disable it using some tips from these sites:

http://garmahis.com/tips/how-to-disable-adobe-updater/
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/331/331261.html

Basically, I did the following on all of my computers:

• searched the C:\ drive for and deleted the file "AdobeUpdaterPrefs.dat".
• I renamed the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Updater5 folder to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Updater5_backup. (One of my PC's had C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Updater6 instead of Updater5. So I renamed folder to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Updater6_backup.)
• I created the registry fix (DisableAUM_Updates.reg) and imported it into my registry.

Hopefully this will stop the nagging.

Posted by Rob Kiser on June 22, 2010 at 10:11 AM

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