AutoUpdate can be totally managed — when and if it happens, which applications are effected by what, and the whole nine yards. Here’s what to do:
1. Search your machine for an application named Adobe Updater. You’ll find it.
2. Run it. You might want to kill me at this moment, because the application will instantly hit the Adobe servers, check your serial numbers against theirs, (you don’t have to be registered, just authorized, which has nothing to do with your ‘secret information’) and looks like it’s updating all your Adobe apps. It’s not.
3. A list (checkbox) will appear containing every relative Adobe app anywhere on your machine — even if you have apps spread out over different drives.
4. Click the Preferences button that appears underneath that list. You’ll find all the controls in that dialog.
Sorry that it’s buried so deep in the software. I actually never heard any major discussions of the preferences dialogs and controls (for the update app) being buried — but apparently it is if you guys (in the non-gender sense) are having problems with AutoUpdate stopping your work. There’s no way this has to continue to happen.
See? Adobe wasn’t the thoughtless bastard some of you thought they were.
Gary in tampa
On 7/18/07 8:55 PM, in article 469eaa4e$0$28429$,
"Julian." wrote:
"Joel" wrote in message
"Julian." wrote:
I have several Adobe programs (all paid for) but I get annoyed at Adobe thinking they can pop up an "update message" and expect me to stop critical
work whenever they feel I need an update!
CS2 was easy enough with registry edit but the CS3 suite? a major interference to my work.
JA
Registry edit? how about telling FIREWALL not to allow it?
That’s a messy fix. What I am attempting to achieve is preventing Adobe from poping up a message about upgrades while I’m in the middle of doing something else, just because I start an Adobe program like when I want to create or read a PDF in Acrobat while I’m working on a web page. It is very annoying.