- Like me, if you are also annoyed with Adobe auto-updater popping up and freezing the application you can completely disable the feature in the latest version of Adobe Acrobat reader 8.1, just follow the steps below to disable Adobe updater.
- To disable automatic updates prior to deploying the software, see the preserialization and suppression settings section in the Enterprise Deployment Options for Adobe Creative Suite 3 Editions and Components white paper (PDF).
- Adding the 'bUpdater' registry entry and setting it to 0 not only disables automatic updates, it also removes the 'Check for Updates' option from the Help menu of Acrobat Reader DC. Proof is in the picture - I took an image of this on my family's Win7 computer with Acrobat Reader DC installed.
How to Disable Automatic Update in Adobe Reader DC. Last updated on February 19th, 2019. Adobe has updated his free 'Acrobat Reader' for viewing, printing and annotating PDF's to 'Adobe Reader DC', where 'DC' means 'Document Cloud'.
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