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August 30, 2025
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Acrobat pro XI upgrade messagesa

  • August 30, 2025
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In 2012 I purchased a perpetual version of Acrobat pro XI

I installed it on Windows 7 activated it and registered it

I lived happily ever after until this week when I started getting messages when running acrobat advising me to up grade as my version is no longer supported.

I do not wish to upgrade I am quite happy with my expensive perpetual version

I do not wish to have support

And I do not wish to get upgrade messages every day

Yesterday and today I have spent hour try to get the messages stopped. Adobe help dont seem to understand this and dont seem to know how to stop the messages they have just started sending me .

Does anyone have any idea how to stop these annoying messages please?

 

 

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Randy Hagan
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Community Expert
August 30, 2025

It's been a while since I've dealt with a Windows 7 system, but you can turn off notifications through the Windows 7 Control Panel.

 

  • Switch to the larger icon view at the upper-right to make things easier on yourself.
  • Go to the System icon. Select it, then turn off the Action Center switch. You may have to scroll down a bit to get to that switch, but it's there.

 

If you were running Windows 10 or 11, there are additional options and controls you can use to work on this by the application. But for Windows 7 it's all or nothing, and sometimes it will stick on the all part.

 

Good luck,

 

Randy

der.baronAuthor
Participant
August 30, 2025

Thanks Randy I have turned off all notifications and will see what that does.

The thing that annoys my profuely is that it is the adobe server sending these messages so it is a recent action by adobe technical people

And the best they can offer is upgrade or ignore messages

Not the sort of thing that encourages one to stay in the adobe camp

My machine runs Acrobat Pro XI just fine apart from these new messages