Taming the wild Acrobat!

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Does anybody happen to know how to stop Adobe Acrobat reader from begging
to get on the internet every time I use it?


JimL
 
Does anybody happen to know how to stop Adobe Acrobat reader from
begging
to get on the internet every time I use it?
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Help menu. Update. Start an update. You'll see a preferences option.
Disable the updating. Of course, if the file is access via network
then obviously the program will be "begging" for a network connection.
 
If you are referring to the 'Adobe Updater' function, this can be blocked
with a firewall.
There is also a feature to setup a 'White List' of allowed sites under the
Preference option.

JS
 
Does anybody happen to know how to stop Adobe Acrobat reader from begging
to get on the internet every time I use it?


JimL
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Get rid of Adobe and d/l Foxitsoftware , much better and easier .
 
Sat said:
Get rid of Adobe and d/l Foxitsoftware , much better and easier .
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Or not.

I tried Foxit -- big mistake! It rudely took over file associations
without asking me, and it distorted the very first PDF I tried to
view. When I tried to uninstall it, I found there was no
uninstaller.

I had to root out the files it had created, and the registry entries.
Quite annoying.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top posting.
Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)?
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
 
"VanguardLH" <[email protected]> said:


Help menu. Update. Start an update. You'll see a preferences option.
Disable the updating. Of course, if the file is access via network then
obviously the program will be "begging" for a network connection.
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Thanks. This is a dial-up connection. Interestingly enough, the point
you describe is already unchecked.

JimL
 
Thanks. Unfortunately the firewall method (at least with my firewall,
ZoneAlarm) blocks an update even if I decide to update it by my own manual
choice. Actually that (firewall) is the way I've handled it for now, but
I'd like the option to update by choice. It seems odd that Adobe would
have it asking to update every time it is used. A real pain in the turkey
feathers. I guess MS and others are still pushing the thin client, depend
on constant internet idea. With the computer resources cheaply available
now (gig of memory in my laptop, 500 gigs of hard drive) I don't see the
advantage to thin client.

I'm not sure what's going on here. I've seen references to Adobe 9, while
an update goes after a 46 mb Adobe 8. Not an attractive interim choice on
a dial-up connection

JS said:
If you are referring to the 'Adobe Updater' function, this can be blocked
with a firewall.
There is also a feature to setup a 'White List' of allowed sites under
the Preference option.
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JimL
 
Stan

Foxit appears in Add / Remove Programs so did you try removing using
that route / method? Foxit works fine here.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Does anybody happen to know how to stop Adobe Acrobat reader from
begging to get on the internet every time I use it?
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Which version?

Are you referring to Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat? Do you need to be
able to create PDFs or just read them?

Although the following article refers to Adobe Reader 7 specifically
(even though the author calls it Adobe Acrobat Reader!), you should be
able to get some ideas, specifically:

<quote>
Version 7 installs a quickstart item in your Start folder. This isn't at
all necessary and the reader starts up blazingly fast without it so do
yourself and your RAM a favor and remove the "Adobe Reader Speed Launch"
from Start->All Programs->Startup.
</quote>

See http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/007183.html

For what it's worth, I use Foxit Reader (the free version) for over 95%
of my PDF viewing. On those rare occasions that a problem crops up
(e.g., not printing correctly), I fire up a tamed down version of Adobe
Reader.

Free version of Foxit Reader 2.2 for Windows can be downloaded from:

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
 
Sat said:
Foxit appears in Add / Remove Programs so did you try removing using
that route / method? Foxit works fine here.
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When I said "there was no uninstaller", I should have been more
explicit and said "there was no uninstaller in Control Panel Add or
Remove Programs, and there was none in the Start button menu."

Please don't use a signature delimiter if you're going to put your
signature before the previous article. Signature delimiters are
properly used only when what follows is your signature -- yet another
problem with posting upside down.


--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top posting.
Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)?
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top posting such a bad thing?
 
Win+R || type msconfig || hit Enter||
Startup tab ||
uncheck "Reader_sl" || OK button || restart the computer

Problem gone?

karl
 
Which version?
8.1.2

Are you referring to Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat? Do you need to be
able to create PDFs or just read them.
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Reader. I had never seen a definitive meaning for Acrobat.
Although the following article refers to Adobe Reader 7 specifically
(even though the author calls it Adobe Acrobat Reader!), you should be
able to get some ideas, specifically:
Click to expand...
<quote>
Version 7 installs a quickstart item in your Start folder. This isn't at
all necessary and the reader starts up blazingly fast without it so do
yourself and your RAM a favor and remove the "Adobe Reader Speed Launch"
from Start->All Programs->Startup.
</quote>
Click to expand...
See http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/007183.html
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The 8 path to update settings is apparently changed from 7.

JimL
 
Reader. I had never seen a definitive meaning for Acrobat.
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Wikipedia's breakdown seems to be accurate:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Acrobat

At Version 6, Acrobat Reader became Adobe Reader. To add to the
confusion, Adobe also has different versions of Acrobat. For now, just
think of Adobe Reader as something that can *only read* PDFs (Acrobat
can create them, too).
The 8 path to update settings is apparently changed from 7.
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Figures!

In that case, try this method posted by Robert Premuz:

Open the following file with a text editor (e.g. Notepad):

"%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application
Data\Adobe\Updater5\AdobeUpdaterPrefs.dat"

(%USERPROFILE% is an environment variable in Windows 2000/XP/2003 that
points to the profile folder of the current user)
and change the line
<AutoCheck>1</AutoCheck>
into
<AutoCheck>0</AutoCheck>

Regarding the high CPU usage, check records in aum.log and aumLib.log
files that should exist in

"%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Updater5\"

and also updater.log file in

"%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application
Data\Adobe\Acrobat\8.0\Updater"

Source: http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bca19a1

(I took the liberty of changing WordPad to Notepad.)

Another workaround is to disable the automatic updater by using
AutoRuns:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

Personally, I would just go with Foxit Reader as your default PDF
reader. You can always use Adobe Reader in the unlikely event that
something in Foxit doesn't work quite right. But if the above solutions
don't work, you may need to uninstall Version 8 and install Version 7.
 
Daave

Does the OP still think he needs to pay $40 for Foxit?

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Regards.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
Gerry said:
Daave

Does the OP still think he needs to pay $40 for Foxit?
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Assuming he's been reading all the replies (including my post, which he
replied to, and yours and bojimbo's), hopefully not!
 
Karl Snooks said:
Win+R || type msconfig || hit Enter||
Startup tab ||
uncheck "Reader_sl" || OK button || restart the computer
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Problem gone?
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karl
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Thanks. Actually I went to double check the anomaly before doing the
above and it had stopped doing it. Going through the steps you suggested
made no change I could detect.


JimL
 
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