Thanks to everyone who has put in time and effort to Question Adobe and also share work-arounds.ĪDOBEs heavy-handed attitude is driving honest paying customers to darker corners of the internet where they are finding easier solutions than manually hacking their own registrys to make their software work without intrusion and the way they need it to.ĪDOBE are only pouring gasoline on the flames of SW piracy. It must be so inconvenient having to cater for customers needs as part of ones corporate mission statement. It is only going to get worse I'm afraid. They view their product as being out on loan to the ' customer' and now they are forcefully implementing that corporate attitude in the code and functionality of their products. Acrobat PRO is used by professionals who must create, review, or edit PDFs in these industries: publishing, communications, printing/graphic arts, marketing/advertising, accessibility, academia, corporate/industry, finance and banking. I totally agree with the justified calls of descent in this and other threads.Īdobe has been very condescending to its end users at least since i started Graphic design 18 years ago. The more you tighten your grip ADOBE, the more star systems will slip through your fingers. Of course just like all the other complains from users about these kinds of problems, it's completely inevitable that you'll either ignore this one or just copy and paste a preprepared templated "We value all feedback from customers, etc" response. The link you provided for the Customization Wizard DC doesn't even work! HKEYLOCALMACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\FeatureLockDown. For Adobe Reader DC registry path on 64bit system is. If autoupdating is off then just make the user aware that Adobe won't provide tech support to older versions. The only proper way to disable updates for a product is to use bUpdater registry value. Plain common sense would say that there should be a simple option in Preferences that allows the user to turn auto updates on or off instead of having to download another application to enable it. It gives three choices, one of which is: Do not download or install updates automatically. At the very bottom of the list on the left-had side is something called Updater. In Adobe Reader X: Edit Preferences Categories. Why do big companies like yours ALWAYS do this extremely annoying auto-this auto-that bs and take more and more control out of the user's hands? Microsoft is exactly the same with programs like Word. Today I found what APPEARS to be a simple way to disable automatic updates. You can modify those settings via the Adobe Customization Wizard DC or the Windows Registryįor the Windows Registry setting look here: Windows Updates " Steve Cordero 8:59 AM ( in response to kilbys54004913)Īdobe Acrobat Reader DC is set up for continuous updating.
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