Adobe Update Flash Player Prefererences selection is meaningless, caught it inserting itself is meaningless, caught it inserting itself to start with Windows regardless of choice

[c627627]

Adobe Flash should be updated for our own security, that's not the point here.

But you know how Adobe gives you a "choice" if you want it inserting itself to start with Windows (or not), and you are under a clear impression that you have a choice?

Well if you look at my screen shot, that choice is bogus.

It tried to insert itself regardless of user choice... before I even clicked on DONE.

I like to manually install updates and not have Adobe sending data in/out of the system - regardless of what it is and why it does it, as a personal individual choice...

But it inserts itself to ping Adobe servers regardless of your choice, look:

[_maria_]

Your assertions are false.

The Background Update Service does install, as it's a required payload of Flash Player, however, it only pings Adobe servers for an update IF the user elects to opt into background updates.  Otherwise it does nothing.

[c627627]

Thank you for posting, could you clarify one thing please: You used the word 'install' but the question is about it inserting itself to RUN at every Windows boot, not simply 'install' - there are many executables that are "installed" on the system, to run when they are needed, but they do not RUN at *every boot.*

So the question is why is it running at every boot if user specifically chose the option to *never* check for updates?

[_maria_]

The task checks the config file to check the users update preferences.  If the user has opted out of Background Updates it does nothing beyond the check.