Disable Adobe Updater

Adobe installs a software called Adobe Updater with many of its products. The updater will automatically connect to the Internet to check for updates for the installed Adobe products. Adobe Updater, that’s the name of the application, will be installed in another folder on the system.

Most users probably do not mind the regular automatic update checks but some might prefer to update the Adobe software products manually. This is important in business environments where patches are extensively tested before applied to client machines.

It is actually not a big problem to disable Adobe Updater if an Internet connection is available. All that needs to be done is to execute the Adobe_Updater.exe file that is located in the Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Updater6 directory on the hard drive. The application will perform an update check and notify the user about updates. The updates won’t be installed however until the user clicks on the Download And Install Updates button.

A click on Preferences will load the configuration screen shown in the above screenshot. Unchecking the “Automatically check for Adobe updates” box will do the trick. Mac OSX users can basically do the same. The location of the Adobe Updater program on their system is /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Utilities/Adobe Updater5/.