![]() ![]() Thanks to everyone who has put in time and effort to Question Adobe and also share work-arounds.ĪDOBEs heavy-handed attitude is driving honest paying customers to darker corners of the internet where they are finding easier solutions than manually hacking their own registrys to make their software work without intrusion and the way they need it to.ĪDOBE are only pouring gasoline on the flames of SW piracy. On a desktop, all Adobe Acrobat DC interpretations let you easily remove shortcuts from the Recent list. It must be so inconvenient having to cater for customers needs as part of ones corporate mission statement. So let’s see like him should go about removing whatever items inward this list, and also what you must do into disable the feature altogether. It is only going to get worse I'm afraid. They view their product as being out on loan to the ' customer' and now they are forcefully implementing that corporate attitude in the code and functionality of their products. Set supersedence to the previous version that you want to update from. I totally agree with the justified calls of descent in this and other threads.Īdobe has been very condescending to its end users at least since i started Graphic design 18 years ago. 2 Answers Sorted by: 1 The way that weve installed/updated Adobe Reader is to just use the /q switch, but choose the Installation program visibility option to Hidden in the User Experience section of the application properties. So I deleted everything in Application Support/Adobe. I tried that, but didnt find any 'updater' folder. The more you tighten your grip ADOBE, the more star systems will slip through your fingers. Here, finder - > application -> open adobe acrobat DC folder -> right click Adobe Acrobat.app -> click Show package Contents -> contents -> click Plugins -> delete Updater.acroplugin folder. ![]() I then restarted the computer and reinstalled Acrobat DC from the Creative Cloud Desktop app. Of course just like all the other complains from users about these kinds of problems, it's completely inevitable that you'll either ignore this one or just copy and paste a preprepared templated "We value all feedback from customers, etc" response. Given the total lack of response, this is apparently a problem that nobody else sees, so I have uninstalled Acrobat DC using the standard procedure outlined here: uninstall-reinstall-acrobat.html. Will NOT re-enable updates (if disabled via package parameter). The link you provided for the Customization Wizard DC doesn't even work! Will NOT remove the AdobeARM service (though it will disable it unless enabled by parameters). REG ADD HKLMSOFTWAREPoliciesAdobeAcrobat. If autoupdating is off then just make the user aware that Adobe won't provide tech support to older versions. I looked into the package and I think the Step 5 Disable Auto Update, Upsell and Services (64-bit) as an error. Plain common sense would say that there should be a simple option in Preferences that allows the user to turn auto updates on or off instead of having to download another application to enable it. Click at Task Schedule Library at the left and then, at the right pane, right click at the Adobe Acrobat Update. Why do big companies like yours ALWAYS do this extremely annoying auto-this auto-that bs and take more and more control out of the user's hands? Microsoft is exactly the same with programs like Word. From Windows Task Manager, under Services, select JBoss service and click Stop Service. You can modify those settings via the Adobe Customization Wizard DC or the Windows Registryįor the Windows Registry setting look here: Windows Updates Disabling Service Upgrades disables both updates to the products web-plugin. Switch the value to 10 if you're suppressing Reader X.although someone posted that it doesn't work with the earliest patch levels." Steve Cordero 8:59 AM ( in response to kilbys54004913)Īdobe Acrobat Reader DC is set up for continuous updating. By default, Adobe online services are tightly integrated into Adobe Reader DC. ![]() But I'm not going to waste my time adding arrays to a file that should have been taken out back and buried along with it's application. If the file exists, you'll stomp it with the above. There are two ways updates are delivered to Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat DC. To confirm: $ defaults read /Library/Preferences/ To disable automatic Acrobat DC updates, you need to do it manually, You can update Adobe software in two ways. usr/sbin/chown root:wheel /Library/Preferences/ If the plist doesn't exist, can echo out the file using a simple script: #!/bin/sh Creative Suite Disable automatic check for updates CS3 Last updated on This document contains instructions for turning off or disabling the automatic check for updates when you start an Adobe Creative Suite 3 product. I wish Adobe Acrobat Reader XI would die.but until it does, this might help. ![]()
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