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System

Windows Vista Business, Premium, and Ultimate with Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.
 

Problem

I can not disable Adobe Acrobat Updater.
 

Solution

You have to stop "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Updater5\AdobeUpdater.exe" from running. Deletion won't help as adobe will create a new folder and file. Here is how it works:

  1. First, start your task manager and kill the "AdobeUpdater.exe" process.
  2. Right click the new file "AdobeUpdater.exe", select "Properties", then "Security".
    Mark at "Group or user names"  "System", press "Edit" and click on all "Deny" checkboxes.
  3. Now do this for all users "Administrator" etc. and press ok.
     

All done. Adobe will never again be able to update. You can test it by trying to start the update within Adobe Acrobat manually. You will see, that nothing will happen.

Disable Adobe Updater 

 

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Randah, 25:01:2010 23:13:59
I still get the pop-up =(
Matt Sainsbury, 10:01:2010 12:43:15:
@moonscape , it should work fine in Windows XP, if the boxes are grayed out, just click "advanced", then uncheck "Inherit from parent the permission entries that apply to child objects....", and then if another dialog appears, select "copy".
They should know be enabled
SAGirl, 21:11:2009 11:10:17:
At last!
To solve on XP, 15:04:2009 16:50:51, says:
Delete the directories:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Updater(version number)
C:\Documents and Settings\(user name)\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Updater(version number)
Problem solved. Thanks for the paths, helped me find the blighter.
RyGuy, 05:02:2009 16:13:38, says:
 Thanks, this method worked perfectly for both Acrobat Reader and Acrobat Standard in XP Pro sp2.
moonscape, 31:01:2009 22:59:40, says:
i'm tempted to install vista for this problem alone - but anyone know how to accomplish this w/ XP Pro?
Franko, 13:01:2009 21:20:36 says "Thanks, that helped".
Hammett, 15:12:2008 13:17:41, says:
 Thanks man.. it worked perfectly
Vineet, 02:12:2008 03:12:55, says:
Wonderful!
Dan, 27:11:2008 21:36:21, says:
Cheers!
Hamed, 26:11:2008 09:30:27 says "Thanks, that helped".

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