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 supported and installed Adobe products. Adobe Updater, that’s the official name of the application, will be installed in its own folder on the system.
Most users probably do not mind the regular automatic update checks but some might prefer to update 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/.
Update: Adobe Updater is available as a separate download from the Adobe website. The program has not been updated since 2009, which may indicate that the program is either no longer used by Adobe, or integrated into their software programs by default to make external installations unnecessary.
The updater, according to the product page, fixes “networking problems, “speed and cpu problems”, “stability problems” and some Internet Explorer related issues.
The program available for download is only compatible with Adobe Creative Suite 4 software or Creative Suite 4 components. Other Adobe products that are not part of the Suite are not supported.
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why not just use foxit, free and lighter on resource
To lily: Because he is talking about Adobe in general, and not Acrobat.
Great advice, thanks!
thank you so much, you saved me much aggravation, best advice out there!!!
I receive adobe updater pop ups, but I do not have a password. [My husband, who died last a
May may have had one, but I cannot find a record of one.] I assume I would want to update. I assume it is free.
Thanks,
Marilyn
I’m not dead. We’re just divorced. I want my puter back, too.
DAD!? You’re alive????
not my puter… i got all my games on der, and play starcreft
i can’t find the file mentioned here, i.e., adobe_updater.exe. Same is the cae with the path mentioned here. although i could find a similar path, C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Updater5. but there was no such file. what to do?
i have adobe reader 8 installed in windows vista ultimate.
For us, Adobe Updater was under Documents and Settings/{Admin user}/Local Settings/Application Data/Adobe/Updater6/
We blocked adobe updater at the firewall after it blew out our data allowance by checking for updates every time a user opened reader/a pdf
Because the updater cannot find an internet connection it cannot be disabled
I simply rename the updater to adobe_updater.old
Adobe want fix it so we did ;o)
I have no Updater folder everywhere in C drive. Please Help. I want a solution different from the Adobe KB and that post.
Do you have this tool setup on your network somewhere – or just on client system only (you might not have it installed on your local drive – or maybe you removed it already?!)? If so, find the network location (client server where you set it up) and that Adobe_Update.exe file should be easy to be found (maybe a search step will help too?!).
See you later…
nice one!!!!!!great advice!
I’m not understand
Hvad er adobe updater og den funktion ??
Dumt Spørgsmål eller hvad ? :)
Sorry, I find the updater.exe but on clicking it, it started to update which is where the problem exists. when it updates it started asking for activation etc. which i want to avoid. I did not find Adope Update Preference. Does it crop after updating is finished or is there another place to find it out?
Plz reply, help will be appreciated.
thank you sooo much.
“It is actually not a big problem to disable Adobe Updater if an Internet connection”
Well that’s fine and dandy if you have an intertet connection but WTF are you supposed to do if you don’t.
Just found our: find the Adobe_Update.exe file. It could be in one of several places – for me it was in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Updater6
Just rename the Adobe_Update.exe to Adobe_Update.OLD.
found the updater 6 but cannot run it to uncheck the box !
double click on it and it pops :run Vista executable …when i’m still running on XP SP3 .
My problem ‘s that the updater always comes when starting up my pc ,i tried to uncheck it in the msconfig starting column unsuccessfully ,and it gulped most of my cpu performance …
Is it simpler to delete it forever?
I just threw adobe_updater.exe in the trash.