But these VPN laptops aren't on the domain. HI, I have Adobe Acrobat Reader DC installed on my Windows 10 pc, and want to not allow automatic Adobe updates. For detailed information about Adobe Customization Wizard, please refer to the article Welcome to the Wizard Acrobat Customization Wizard DC for Windows. Select Check for Updates from the drop down menu. Click on Help from the top adobe menu bar.
#Disable adobe acrobat update how to#
Press Enter after carefully typing in the command: del 'PROGRAMFILES (X86)Common FilesAdobeARM'. ADOBE ACROBAT 9 PRO How to disable Adobe Updater. Delete the left-over files from your disk to get rid of it completely. Press Enter after each command: sc.exe stop AdobeARMservice sc.exe delete AdobeARMservice. When finished, you are alerted using a small message in the system tray that your software has been updated. Disable and delete the service by typing in these two commands.
#Disable adobe acrobat update install#
Stop lying to your users.Īnyway, the GPO key fix works for our office workstations that don't have Acrobat Pro installed. You can use Adobe Acrobat Customization Wizard or the Windows registry to disable the auto-update of Adobe Reader. Updates are delivered using the following two options: Install updates automatically (recommended): Acrobat Reader and Adobe Acrobat regularly check for important updates, downloads them, and installs them automatically. Stop labeling Reader 圆4 as "Adobe Acrobat". The only working solution Ive found to stop automatic updates so far, is to block Adobe Acrobat Update Helper Tool in the firewall. If I enter the password, the checkbox is still activated. Why you do this? Reader is Reader is Reader. If I try to disable automatic updates in preferences, Adobe Acrobat is asking for admin credentials to install a helper tool. And then they complain to mangement that WE THE IT DEPT lied to THEM about "Acrobat installed to their computer".Īcrobat Pro, when licensed to a user, IS installed to their office workstation. Just, why?īecause then the user sees this on their dumb terminal VPN laptop and thinks WE THE IT DEPT remote installed them sweet sweet Acrobat Pro and tries to go hog wild with it. Then at some point after the user takes the laptop home, Reader updates from x32 to 圆4, and swaps out the icon for a "Adobe Acrobat" icon instead.
It shows itself on the laptop user desktop as "Adobe Reader". Adobe Reader is installed to the laptop image. This is an ongoing issue with dumb VPN laptops we deploy to WFH approved users.
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