Comments on: How to disable Adobe updater

By: Viiratech

Viiratech — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 05:02:03 +0000

Nice tip, This had bothered for a long time. But it has been solved here. Thank you for the tip and thanks to all that commented because some of the comments have given me additional information on what to do.

By: Willie

Willie — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 04:21:45 +0000

Nothing worked for me :i was unable to open the updater 6.exe that need vista executable to uncheck the automatic box , when my pc was runnin on XP SP3 .

So i decided to get rid of this f*cking annoyance that gulped more than 50% of my ressources ,slowing my pc too much ! it was persistant but at least i did it !

-1rst you ‘ve to delete the adobe ARM file in the C/ program files/common file/adobe (thats no problems) or it ‘ll regenerate the updater file forever each time you start your pc ! go to the garbage bin and erase it .
-then go to msconfig ,the startup column to uncheck ALL the adobe ARM and adobe up & reader updater …by clicking on OK it ‘ll prompt a message telling to reboot .
- dont click yet , go ,open another window to get ready : my computer/C/ program files/adobe to hightlight the updater 6 file ( its still running so you cant delete it)
-click on reboot ,it ‘ll prompt another message to terminate the updater file manually ,wait it loads full .

there you’ve to be fast :
click on the terminate button at left ( or anyelse like it ) then delete the updater 6 right after !

the pc ‘ll reboot and you’ll find the updater file in your garbage bin ! lol !

erase it at will and go to your task manager to see the difference :the used % of ressources dropped significantly ! your pc runs smoothly again …

By: pakmenu

pakmenu — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:56:49 +0000

ok i have found this info when looking for the ‘administrator’ method of disabling flash player updates. I was right. the update is requested along with other http requests from your browser when any flash object is opened. in fact they themselves say the only way to find out if updates are requested is by using a packet sniffer. and look for fpdownload.macromedia.com requests.

turn off disable adobe flash player updater:
in the following directory:
# Windows NT, 2000– C:\WINNT\System32\Macromed\Flash
# Windows XP, Vista –C:\WINDOWS\System32\Macromed\Flash
# Windows 95, 98, or ME–C:\Windows\System\Macromed\Flash
# Windows 64-bit — C:\Windows\SysWOW64
make a file called mms.cfg (using notepad) with content:

AutoUpdateDisable=1

By: pakmenu

pakmenu — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:32:45 +0000

adobe flash player is all i have from adobe, but it seems to update itself without any process being evoked! (running process explorer, doesn’t detect any program when it happens)

How to remove it? it’s not an .exe but must be some dll or somethign, no idea how it does it. The f.. up thing is the only ‘official’ way to turn it off is by browser and go to their site.

but i do not WANT to connect to their site at all. and more worrying is that my commodo firewall doesn’t even intercept any traffic, even though i have set it to paranoid!

I could only imagine it uses my browser to somehow connect and *know* there’s a new update, but my browser weasn’t even started yet when it popped up.

This updater is the most persistent and unconventional i’ve ever seen. i wish i could do without flash player, but you know how many sites depend on it!

By: statik proje

statik proje — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:50:58 +0000

thank you very much.. nice article..

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:16:27 +0000

Just the job!
Thanks for the post.

By: Blancke

Blancke — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:55:49 +0000

click with right mouse button and change Attributes of this file to “Read only”
————————-
you must deselect the “Read Only” item to have the possibility to chane something in the file.

Greats from Blancke.

By: Sudipto De Sarkar

Sudipto De Sarkar — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:13:51 +0000

Thanks, I was wanting this for long…

By: Nitin

Nitin — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:33:39 +0000

The location mentioned for AdodeUpdatePerf.dat in Windows 7 is C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Adobe.
Here Admin is the username.
Note: AppData is a hidden folder. So change the settings to ‘view all files’ under ‘view tab’ in ‘folder options’. Then perform a search in the above mentioned Address.

By: Stan

Stan — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:28:25 +0000

You can also block the updater with a firewall like comodo.

Thanks works, very nice

By: Goldfishrock

Goldfishrock — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:27:10 +0000

To kill the new Updater 6 I have found this works.

Open regedit and navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe ARM\1.0\ARM

edit the ‘iLastY’ value and change the year to 2999 (00000bb7 in hex!).

Or just create a ‘reg file and paste this in a run

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe ARM\1.0\ARM]
“iLastY”=dword:00000bb7
“iLastD”=dword:00000090

Hope it works for you

By: Johnnyboy

Johnnyboy — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:32:51 +0000

A great alternative to Adobe Acrobat reader is foxit. It’s free, its not a resource hog, and theres no BS.

Foxit reader:
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/downloads/index.php

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:44:55 +0000

Thanks B, that worked great. Quick and easy!

By: Joe Smith

Joe Smith — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:32:18 +0000

The original solution worked for me, but I changed something about it:

Rather than date it back a few years, I dated it the “Last Checked” date to 2012, in the DAT file.

FYI, I’m using version 9

By: Mario

Mario — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:14:07 +0000

I fully agree with the previous poster ! ! ! ADOBE Updater is recognized as a virus by AVIRA ! ! ! It can not be deleted ! It only can be disabled temporarily ! It will reinstall itself time after time. Is all about data mining by the parent company !