Permanently disable Adobe Collab Sync?

for anyone who care, here a page to b!tch at them

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/uninstall-acrobat-survey.html

AS A LONG TIME USER OF ACROBAT (20+ YEARS) I CAN TELL YOU ADOBE KNOWS ABOUT THIS PROBLEM AND THEY DON'T CARE. ADOBE WANTS YOU TO INSTALL THEIR PRODUCT AND NOTHING WILL WORK RIGHT UNTIL YOU DO. I WAS DOING JUST FINE WITH ACROBAT PRO 2020 UNTIL ONE DAY I COULD NO LONGER DO "PREVIEWS" IN WINDOWS 11 EXPLORER. AFTER MUCH ANGST I DISCOVERED I MUST HAVE ACROBAT READER INSTALLED EVEN THOUGH I DON'T NEED OR WANT IT. MY PEEVE IS THERE IS NO LONGER A PERPETUAL VERSION OF ACROBAT PRO AS EVERYTHING ACROBAT OFFERS NOW IS ONLY AVAILABLE ON A RENTAL BASIS AND EVERYTHING CONNECTS TO THE ADOBE CLOUD WHICH, AGAIN, I DON'T WANT. AS SOON AS ANOTHER COMPANY RELEASES A COMPETITOR TO ACROBAT PRO 2020, WITH CATALOG INDEXING, I AM GONE. I HAVE NEVER GROWN SO MUCH TO HATE A SOFTWARE COMPANY AS I HAVE ADOBE AND I WILL NOT REWARD THEM WITH MORE OF MY MONEY.

How to disable "Adobe Collab Sync" (AdobeCollabSync.exe) background process from starting in Microsoft Windows 10/11 desktop application.

This is for users who do not use the Adobe Cloud services and are only using Adobe Acrobat Reader DC as a standalone desktop application.  As of Adobe's continuous release version 2023.008.20533, the following are the steps taken to turn off "Sync preferences across devices and document services".

The option to be able to enable or disable this setting is disabled (greyed out) in the application preferences while signed out of adobe cloud.  The following steps were taken to resolve this issue and maintain one's personal security privacy considerations.

• Using the Adobe Acrobat Reader DC desktop application, select the [Menu] button at the top left of the title bar of the application window.

• Choose [Help]->Sign in.  This opens your default Internet Browser to allow you to authenticate cloud access using the DC application.
  
  If you don't have an Adobe Creative Cloud account, you can create one that doesn't require a subscription to their services.
  
  When signing in Turn off "Stay signed in" for your individual security and privacy.
  
  A "You're signed in" confirmation web page will be presented stating you can now close this window and get back to where you left off.
  
  Instead, change the URL in the address bar to "https://www.adobe.com" and log out of Adobe Cloud in the Internet web browser desktop application.  Clear the Internet web browser cache.  Now, close the windows of the Internet web browser application.

• Once the DC application is authenticated (logged in) to the Adobe cloud, through the [Menu] button again, select the "Preferences" option.

• When the Preferences dialog opens, under the categories section on the left, choose "Adobe Online Services".

• On the right under "Sync settings", the checkbox will now enabled (not greyed out) so that the check can be checked or unchecked and should be presented with the default of being checked.

• Uncheck the box (do not sign out yet) and press [OK].
  
  NOTE: If you return to the Preferences after this, both the [Sign Out] button and the "Sync settings" options will be disabled (again).

• Return to the [Menu] button again, and select [Help]->Sign Out... (youremailaddres@domain.com)

• Confirm signing out with the [Sign out] button in the Sign out dialog window.

• NOTE: If you return to the Preferences after this, you can confirm that the "Sync settings" is unchecked for the option to the greyed out (disabled) "sync preferences across devices and document services" will be unchecked and the email address will be removed.

I hope this helps because all the other solutions I read were either wrong or applied to x86 version and/or earlier version of the DC application.

How do I remove all this crap?  I was a paying customer now I want it totally removed.

Please upvote those two bugs on adobe acrobat uservoice. If you don't have an account, you can quickly login with google/facebook.

We need to go from 7-9 upvotes to hopefully 100+ and fix this decade old bug.

Hopefully we wouldn't have to tinker with system/program files and acrobat behaving correctly BY DESIGN. 

https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/39831907-bug-reader-dc-20-006-20034-still-holds-lock-on-fi

https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/40406260-acrobat-pro-dc-sometimes-holds-lock-on-file-afte

New thread here : 
They have to fix it for 2022, it's been wrong for too long.
https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/we-re-going-to-mars-but-i-have-bigger-plans-in-2022-i-want-to-rename-a-pdf/m-p/12648200#M345106

I worked with an adobe tech. AdobeCollabSync was locking my file even when I closed it and caused other processes to not work correctly, such as deleting the file.

This worked and I havent had an issue since: He had me delete "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat DC\Acrobat\FullTrustNotifier.exe" and "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat DC\Acrobat\AdobeCollabSync.exe"

Adobe's buggy garbage extends to their support forums, my reply won't post...

I can't offer a permanent, background fix, but below are the steps for a simple batch script to kill AdobeCollabSync.exe with a single click from your taskbar:

1. Right Click Windows Desktop (or any folder in Windows Explorer

2. Select "New"> "Text Document

3. Rename the file whatever you want "NoDobe.txt" etc...

4. Open up the blank text document and type exactly this, with no quotation marks:

taskkill /f /im AdobeCollabSync.exe​

"taskkill /f /im AdobeCollabSync.exe"

5. Click the "File" menu and select >"Save As"

6. Just below the file name there is a dropdown "Save as type", click it and select "All Files"

7. Now select your filename and replace ".txt" with ".bat"  (no quotation marks).

8. Click Save. 

There should now be an icon on the desktop with two little gears by whatever you named it, as well as your original .txt file.  Don't delete your original .txt file just yet. 

Double-clicking this icon will terminate AdobeCollabSync.exe anytime you need to.

If you want to test it a few times, the default install location for AdobeCollabSync.exe is:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat DC\Acrobat

The next thing you might want to do is pin the script to your Windows taskbar or start menu for easy access. By default, Windows won't let you do this with a batch file, but there's a workaround:  Take that NoDobe.txt file we didn't delete in the prior step, open it back up, and do the same File>Save As>All Types -but this time save it as "NoDobe.exe" You won't actually be able to run this file, but it's just a placeholder anyways.

Now right click this new .exe file and select "pin to taskbar."

Next, move the cursor to this new icon on your taskbar, right click it, hover the cursor over "NoDobe.exe" and right click again.  Select "properties."

This should take you to the "shortcut" tab, by default.  In the "Target" field, you'll see the path to the .exe file.  We're going to change this ".exe" to ".bat"

If you want, you can also take this opportunity to change the icon to something more recognizable  

When you're done, click "Apply" and select "OK" to close out of the properties dialogue box.  

You can now delete the .txt file and the .exe

Hope it helps!

This still remains an issue. Does Abode listen to users any more?

I cannot tinker with things on my PC as our IT department makes this difficult, if not impossible.

I leave the file AdobeCollabSync.exe in place but append a different extension (e.g. AdobeCollabSync.exe.KILLTHIS). This is the only way I've been able to stop that disruptive AdobeCollabSync tool. While trying to work, my PDFs are locked by AdobeCollabSync. I'd kill the task in Task Mgr but bc I work with a lot of PDFs, it's a brief rememdy at best. PDFs get locked. Even the directory they're located in gets locked. Can't rename or move PDFs nor the directories they reside in.

Even installed Adobe Creative Cloud app and set the Sync setting to PAUSED. No change. STILL lockes up my PDFs and directories. This is a problem impacts my productivity in the office and in the field.

Reached out to Adobe. They just uninstalled the app and ran a cleanup tool, the software equivalent of a computer REBOOT. Didn't resolve the issue. I pay too much in subscription costs to be putting up with this nonsense.

Why is there no OPT OUT of  ADOBE COLLABERATOR. Not EVERYONE works on a TEAM. That and it's a Resource Hog.