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May 21, 2020
Question

Acrobat Reader's Constant Annoying Updates

  • May 21, 2020
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Recently updated Acrobat Reader to the latest version and I've been regretting it.

It keeps doing auto-updates and then requesting machine reboots.  I have better things

to do that shut down all applications just because Reader decided to do an update.

There used to be ways to disable updates.  I don't see any of those options any longer.

Certainly there is at least a registry key that will suppress this annoying and time-

wasting behavior.

 

Can someone please advise...

 

PS: If Adobe thinks auto-updating is imperative, then have your developers figure

out how to do this without requiring rebooting the machine.

 

avoid the 

 

 

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try67
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 22, 2020

Assuming you have a relatively modern OS rebooting it is not really necessary after most installations.

Participant
May 23, 2020

Well, thanks for the reply, try67.  I can't explain why Acrobat is insisting on reboots, and obviously I have no direct control over that.  So I'm just looking for a way to disable automatic updates.  The usual methods seem to be removed from the menus.

 

The tone of my original query may have seemed harsh, but I just went through shutting down all running programs (a lot of them), and rebooting the machine, just to accomodate a program that reads pdf files.  Brought all the programs back up, and Acrobat immediately did it again.  I never saw this behavior in previous versions, and there were menu options to turn this off.

 

Acrobat is not the most important program on this machine (doing lengthy neural net computations, etc), so I just want to assign appropriate priority.  The omission of the relevant options does not seem well thought out.  Looking at some of the comments online, it seems that I'm not the only one with that opinion.