How to disable Adobe updater
Adobe updater could be really annoying, though I find Adobe Creative Suite 3 as a masterpiece. Every time that you start Photoshop, Illustrator or Acrobat Adobe updater pops up and tries to download updates. It is also a big resource hog. So how can you disable Adobe updater?
The solution is very simple. Find through search in disc C file “AdobeUpdaterPrefs.dat” (c:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Updater5), click with right mouse button and change Attributes of this file to "Read only". UPD: Open this file with any text editor (Notepad) and change year value in this line to 2008 or 2009 <LastDateCheck>2008-10-29</LastDateCheck> or just delete this file, though its very radical cure to my mind.
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thank you ! it has been useful
That did not work for me..the damn thing keeps starting up in the background!
However, I read a solution that asked for the deletion of the Updater5 directory located in (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\).Try putting it in the recycle bin before completely deleting it.If it works without any problems,you can go right ahead and empty the Trash!
It worked for me! Im update free for now! Hope it works for you too.
Here you can read how to disable ADOBE UPDATER, step by step tut…
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb402251
Thank you zextra.
Does any know of removing Adobe Updater 5 from other adobe products like Photoshop.
Has anyone created a Group Policy Object to remove the updater, I have been able to do it via Adobe Reader custom package installer, although other adobe products have installed the Photoshop.