I recently realized that Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Premiere CS3 were updating themselves without permission to do so. I looked for an option within each respective application to disallow automatic updates, but could not find one. After doing some searching, I found this workaround.
To disable automatic updates in Adobe CS3 for Windows Vista (Should work for Windows XP too):
1. Start > Run > C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Updater5\AdobeUpdater.exe (if this does not work, navigate to to the common files folder and follow the same directory structure to get to AdobeUpdater.exe.
2. Adobe Updater will open, and select continue as it searches for updates.
3. On the screen where you tell it to download the updates, it will have a preferences link. Click the preferences link.
4. Un-check the box that says “Automatically check for updates.” and hit okay, then close out of the updater.
5. Enjoy.
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thanks so much .
Thanks for this, it always annoyed me!
Just what I needed, thanx heaps !
Thanks dude… YOU ROCK!
thanks a million – this was chowing my bandwidth like mad
and if the preferences check box isn’t there – what then???
(WinXP/CS3 full install)
Awsome, I hate software doing updates w/o asking me first
thx, hate software dong updates w/o asking me first
Thanx. In my case the “Updater5″ is located here > C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Updater5
Sorry about my previous post. That folder was almost empty (just some .dat and .aum files inside). After searching I found the “AdobeUpdater.exe” here C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Updater5.
opening C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Updater5\AdobeUpdater.exe cause download of update automatically,
in my case auto updater is located in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Updater
you can also take a look here
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402251.html