STOP STOP STOP forcing updates in the middle of a production day!

45 minutes to reboot after an Adobe Acrobat update that wouldn't allow me to open a file until the reboot. And I was in a meeting trying to show a document when it announced this. Not impressive folks. Stop updating without asking our permission. And stop defaulting to automatic updates. Let us decide if we want them automatically or not. Don't require us to shut something off like this.

You can set the CC DTA to Not do Auto Updates. Click the Gear icon and you get this dialog. Go to the Apps tab.

And on the General tab you can set it to NOT Start with your system and to NOT Keep Creative Cloud up to date.

You do not need the CC DTA running to use the CC programs. Every now and then, at your leasure when nothing is going on, you can open it and check for updates for both the CC DTA and the apps you have installed.

your adobe cloud WOULD NOT ALLOW IT -- it stopped and asked if I would like to install a different version - thank you very much -- I tried closing everything and opening from the app on my computer and it would not open -- thanks for your advice. I have auto update off -- it still -- if i did NOT accept the 20 minute update - I couldn't open photo shop -- thanks 

I'm curious -- have you ever charged clients by the hour only to have 1 hour turn into 3 because of update crap? 

when you changed adobe acrobat to the cave man drawings, you moved many things around making it impossible to take all of my files into acrobat - (jpegs and word) to make one 38 page adobe acrobat file -- that was fun -- I had to turn everything into a pdf to do what acrobat used to do automatically -- yes - added hours to my workload -- again - I wish you would put working freelancers on your test modules so that we the gotta get-er done now generation wouldn't have to spend so much time figuring away around your "fix"

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> deciding I have time to wait for damned update rather than access the program

As Jeff says, you can set your Preferences to allow automatic updates or not. Hopefully disabling it works for you.

I choose when updates are applied. I never have to stop production during the day.

Melody_Brunsting, I am sorry that you were interrupted in your work to apply a software update.  What type of Creative Cloud membership do you have?  If you have an individual membership then you can use the steps listed in https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/creative-cloud-updates.html to control if updates are applied automatically or not.