
Turns out there are entire directories for the Updater software!Ĭ:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Adobe\Updater5Ĭ:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Updater5ĭirectory of C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Updater5

cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common Files/Adobe/TypeSpt/Unicode/Mappings/AdobeĪdobe Has LOTS of Files Named “Update”. cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common Files/Adobe/Help/en_US/Adobe Reader cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common Files/Adobe cygdrive/c/Program Files/Adobe/Reader8.0/Reader/adobe_epic cygdrive/c/Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Help Viewer

cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/?/Local Settings/Application Data/Adobe cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/?/Application Data/Adobe/Linguistics/Dictionaries/Adobe Custom Dictionary cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/?/Application Data/Adobe cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/NOS/Adobe_Downloads cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/Adobe $ find /cygdrive/c -type d -iname “*adobe*” But this month I still saw the disobedient software giving me a popup window, telling me that it wanted to update again.Ĭ:\Documents and Settings\?\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Updater5\aum.logĬ:\Documents and Settings\?\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Updater5\Install I made a backup file of AdobeUpdaterPrefs.dat, and did what the webpage said. It said to modify the file, AdobeUpdaterPrefs.dat, found at:Ĭ:\Documents and Settings\?\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Updater5 I found another webpage that went into more detail. It continued to update itself.Ĭhanging the Settings in AdobeUpdaterPrefs.dat – Didn’t Work
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When you search for how to turn off updates to Adobe Acrobat Reader, usually the first thing you will see will be how to turn it off in the program itself. But didn’t find anything that looked like Adobe.Ĭhanging the settings in Adobe Acrobat Reader – Didn’t Work
