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1. #DISABLE ADOBE UPDATE MAC OS X#
2. #DISABLE ADOBE UPDATE INSTALL#
3. #DISABLE ADOBE UPDATE UPDATE#
4. #DISABLE ADOBE UPDATE SOFTWARE#
5. #DISABLE ADOBE UPDATE PASSWORD#

This can also be done with the adobeARM.EXE which will run in the start up of your system. That's it, no matter what adobe does, the file will never be permitted to run on your system again. Make sure the disallow drop down is picked in the dialog box. Browse to any of the files mentioned here, depending on the version you have. A new dialog box will open which will allow you to browse to any file you want. In the right side box, right click and choose "New Path Rule".

Then expand "security settings" / "software restriction policies". In the computer configuration tree, expand "windows settings" A more perminate way to stop this is simple.

#DISABLE ADOBE UPDATE UPDATE#

If you delete the file and at some point decide to update adobe will reinstall the file. Sorry my post is running long, but another crap thing about Adobe, they do not let you change the flash player setting unless your computer is connected to internet !

#DISABLE ADOBE UPDATE SOFTWARE#

Heck, then how the hell they manage to bring this crappy update software to foreground when the computer starts up ? Damn thing ! There is no corresponding Adobe entry in the registry CurrentVersion\Run or even the startup folder to indicate windows start up entries running the updater software. I really hate when people run their software without my knowledge on my personal computer and I am really puzzled to see Adobe, a multi million dollar company keeps such an update strategy. Who the hell gave them permission to run the updater when my computer starts up when I am not even thinking of using their 2 bit crappy piece of software. They do not seem to understand that the most sensible time to run the updater is when the software or its component (Adobe reader) is opened or invoked. Anyone figured out how Adobe manages to run their update software using Operating System resources(win) when the computer starts up?.

#DISABLE ADOBE UPDATE PASSWORD#

In that case, you will need to run “ sudo su -” first and type in your own password to gain root privilege (the prompt changes from “ $” to “ #”) before they can be removed. One reader also pointed out that in his case, the updater is installed in the system-wide location /Library/LaunchAgents.

#DISABLE ADOBE UPDATE INSTALL#

I don't have Creative Suite so I can't verify that.įurthermore, it appears that when you set Updater preference in Adobe Reader XI to "Do not download or install updates automatically," it now removes the launchd task as well, which means the launchctl and rm commands would no longer be necessary. I just installed Adobe (Acrobat) Reader XI and found that the name is still .*, but if you have Creative Suite, it might be .* instead. Feel free to remove them all.Įdit (Oct 20, 2012): a couple of readers pointed out in the comment that the launchd namespace used by Adobe Updater is now different. While you are at it, there may be other launchd jobs in ~/Library/LaunchAgents left over from stale applications you might have tried before. plist`īasically, the idea is, for each launchd plist file in ~/Library/LaunchAgents that you don't want, run launchctl remove on the job name, which is the same as the plist file name without the. To remove, type these commands in a Terminal window: If you look inside the file (it's a plain text file), you'd see that launchd would run the updater at 12600 seconds interval, or 3.5 hours. The actual file name is suffixed with a number of random characters, but it starts with "" as the prefix.

The job file is stored under your ~/Library/LaunchAgents folder. To launchd, Adobe Updater is a periodic job.

#DISABLE ADOBE UPDATE MAC OS X#

The updater is launched by a Mac OS X system service called launchd. To stop Adobe Updater completely, one must understand how it gets run in the first place. The fact that I'm dedicating system resource every now and then so the Adobe Updater can phone home but not tell me to update is not good enough for me. Adobe update manager is really annoying, but most instructions on the web to disable it merely tells Adobe Updater not to report updates the updater still runs silently.