Adobe Acrobat Dc Update Disable
Harold Yengo
My work computer updated to the new Adobe Acrobat Pro (2023.006.20320) and the app is now completely unusable. This update is genuinely terrible. Nothing was improved, and even after a month using this version, work that used to take me 5 minutes now takes half an hour.
I've tried to find the option to "disable new acrobat" but it does not appear under the "View" drop down menu. Why is the option not appearing for me and how can I revert back to the previous acrobat version?
Please voice you comment directly to Adobe's engineering and marketing teams by voting and commenting at -acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/47082691-ditch-t... It's important to let them know how the "modern" interface doesn't meet your needs.
Hi Bevi. Thank you for your response. As mentioned in the original comment, the "Disable New Acrobat" option does not appear for me. I am using a windows device, however there is not a hamburger menu in the top corner of the screen. The only menu options at the top left of the screen are File, edit, view, e sign, window, and help. Below that there is a "home" tab, a "tools" tab, and then tabs for each individual pdf that is open. There are no other clickable icons in the top left corner.
Please refrain from posting pre-typed responses to this question. I have already read through the forum for a fix to my problem (including the multiple times that exact response has been posted) and I have not found one.
Hi, thank you for your response. As I have mentioned in the first two responses, there is not a hamburger icon in the top left corner of my screen. I included a screenshot of the icons that are present for reference.
Can someone please help with this, I do not have an option to revert back to the old acrobat version and I cannot do the work I need to with this update. This is seriously starting to become an issue for me, I have work I need to get done.
I too work on many pdfs during the day. Although I have the hamburger menu, when I select "disable new acrobat" and restart the app as instructed, it's still the new interface. As a work around I don't exit the app, only the individual pdfs so I'm not waiting for the "what's new" box every time I open a new one. Certainly not the ideal solution but the only way I've found to reduce the disruption.
I have a Windows Vista HP laptop. I don't know when Adobe Updater first started being there, what it came with, but it is there, and it does its thing with every startup. First I just went into its own preferences (where after it's done "searching for updates," you can either hit Quit or Preferences) and told it to only do this once a month (the longest amount of time it offers). And that didn't do anything. So then I went into the control panel and into programs, then change startup programs. From there I found Adobe Updater and clicked "remove." I restarted, it was still there. I did the same thing and hit "disable," restarted, it was still there. I went back and did BOTH, restarted, it was still there. I then went to my system configuration and unchecked Adobe Updater, hit apply, hit OK, said yes to the request to restart, and it was STILL THERE. I did these things over and over again for twenty minutes.
On Windows, choose Help>Check for Updates>Preferences and uncheck the "Automatically check for updates" box. Another option is to go to Edit>Preferences>Updater and select the option "Do Not download or Install Updates Automatically".
I DID do this, and it still isn't disabled. I launched Adobe Reader (v. 9.4.1), when to Edit/Preference/Updater, and then clicked the third button, which says "Do not download or install updates automatically."
so far the program works great and initialize's properly how many times do you want an update? everytime you start your program?
Nothing worked that anyone sugested I hate to look at this problem this way but Adobe did not give any good advice.
They said run it and disable it ,, I went one step further now it does not have any reason to run
On Windows 7, hit WindowsKey + R, type msconfig and hit OK, then run it as administrator. Go to "Startup" tab and uncheck anything that says "Adobe". In my case it was "Adobe Reader And Acrobat Manager", then click Apply and reboot.
it was never a problem to install, uninstall anything as it is my laptop and I have myself installed windows. even if I run an app as admin, still won`t run. when I click Opera I get: The exception Breakpoint.., when I want to uninstall adobe i get: Error 1711. An error occurred while writing instalation information to disk. Check to make sure you have enough disk space available... I have considered permissions and I tried to mofify params but access is denied. Thank you for trying.
I am an IT Manager for my company and we use a software called DeepFreeze to put the workstations into stasis mode after they are setup. No updates are permanent unless we unlock the software first. So we have always disabled automatic updates to keep the computers from wasting time and computer resources. I exported the registry key with the AU off and can quickly "turn off" AU in the future. But it's a bit presumptuous of Adobe to remove the controls from the preferences. At least they didn't remove "Check For Updates" under the Help menu.
I too work in a public environment and use Deep Freeze. I also get tired of having to figure out certain registry entries in order to disable automatic updates for various programs and I refuse to use crappy customization tools.
forced automatic updates for Reader DC is much like the upcoming Windows 10 operating system. Win10 will have automatic updates always on.and only Pro & Enterprise users of Win10 (not Core/Home users) can defer/delay automatic updates.
That can be done even with "Windows Firewall with Advanced Security" (or any other firewall you might be using), by creating an outbound rule for "C:\program files\adobe\acrobat reader dc\reader\acrord32.exe" (or whatever your path/program name is (it is different e.g. for a 64-bit system))
nope, St_Ranger. 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.
A couple of years ago, I couldn't do this, but now enough websites have jumped on board that I finally got rid of it. If you go to youtube and you are still using Flash, it will display your video in Flash whether you like it or not. If you uninstalled Flash, then youtube will default to using HTML. More and more websites are doing this using an auto-detect system.
A possible deterrent is that it is maintained by Google, - so there might be privacy issues (I haven't looked at that at all, - it's just a guess based on the overall desire of Google to collect information).
I wholeheartedly agree with many on this post. As a software developer that has many PDFs open at many times, and can't just rebppt my PC when an app decides it wants me to, I need to be able to control when things update... I never let Flash update on it's own. But with Acrobat, frequently there are rebooting requirements, since you are forcing a reboot, we must be give control.
Hey guys, thank you all for the directions. Done all that's been listed and will pull the plug on installing/running Adobe Reader DC in my family's computers and those of my company upon software maintenance.
Adobe does not seem to understand their reader is already one of the heaviest on resources, and annoying users with cumbersome procedures (it is, for regular users) will just enforce the stampede towards competitors.
In regard to accepting license agreements, noone even reads them, home users or system administrators. There is no negotiation of clauses or any sort of customization for anything the user does not agree with. For paid software it's even more dull, since the "contract" is presented AFTER purchase. That is why software agreements will never have any value to users. Though their acceptance may exempt Adobe and other developers from any legal claims, they just worsen user irritation upon mention. People want and have the right to easily manage what software is unnecessarily spending resources and devouring their 3G/4G data limits. Softwares that do not comply with that are subject to abandonment. In fact, the plain refusal of developers to attend to user basic needs (not to have this hassle, for example) is what starts the search for alternative applications. Should they just maintain things running smoothly for the user (you need updates for that, we get it, but we need to update only when it is convenient), the natural inertia would keep them using the software forever.
It may be free software, and Adobe can do as they wish with their software, and we have choices. They are in a sense taking over the consumer computer, invading the personal space, with out of control software. Automatic updates open the door for spyware and possible virus attacks. If they put out an update that has an unexpected error, we will all be paying a possible price. I would see them opening themselves up for a possible class action lawsuit which they will probably deny with their overblown user agreement. The time has come for these software companies to hire better lawyers and reduce their user agreements to no more than 500 English words. The choice is to use another of the many free options out there, my option will be to completely uninstall the Adobe software and label the company a purveyor of spyware, what else is in the software that is automatic.
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