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How to get rid of Adobe updater

I recently updated Photoshop to CS5 and I now have an irritating new startup called Adobe Updater. This thing parks itself in the menu bar and slows down startup, and I cannot find where it lives. It is not in any of the startup folders nor in the user account startup item list. Does anyone know how I can get rid of this thing? I try to keep a lean system and I will check for updates myself, I very much dislike all these programs leaping into action when I startup the machine but for some reason the Adobe updater is not following the rules and is being "clever..."

Does anyone know how I can get rid of this thing and how it insinuates itself into the startup process? I would like to make sure that other applications are also not doing the same thing and running code over which I have no control. It's getting like Windows for all love...

Thanks - Lawrence

Mac SE, PowerBook 140, 2 MacMinis, MacBook Pro 17", 24" iMac and a panic of PCs, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Jul 21, 2010 5:53 AM

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Allan Eckert

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Posted on Jul 21, 2010 6:18 AM

Hi Lawrence;

Have you asked Adobe seeing as how it is their product?

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Tim Fall

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Nov 6, 2010 2:15 AM in response to baltwo

There is an application contained in Acrobat/Contents/Mac OS/Updater/ called Adobe Acrobat Updater Helper.app. I looked again at ~/Library/Launch Agents/com.adobe.ARM and found a string containing this application with a option called "run at launch". My guess would be that this is the update checker that is either launched when Acrobat is or when the Launch Agent is (at login).

If you want to remove the automatic launch of the updater without removing the updater itself, you might want to try unchecking the option to "run at launch" or to change the string containing the location of the updater. Let me know if this works.

There is also an xml document in Acrobat/Contents/Mac OS/ call "selfhealing" which is likely a installation manifest to reinstall any missing components. If you do remove any of Acrobat's components they may be reinstalled.

Nov 7, 2010 8:30 AM in response to LawrenceHare

I am using Adobe CS5, and my Updater App resides in Applications/Utilities. It only appears in the menu bar when there's an update. I like this because I can keep updated without frequently checking.

How to get rid of Adobe updater