Yesterday I posted about how great Firefox’s upgrade procedure is. Today, I want to contrast that with an “Update Manager” that’s really terrible.
It’s the Adobe Acrobat Update Manager, which for the last few days has wanted to upgrade Acrobat to 7.0.6, 7.0.7, 7.0.8, 7.0.9 Standard. It looks like it could happen all at the same time, but no– it can’t, and worse yet, it requires reboots in between each upgrade. That means some 4 reboots just to upgrade a few minor version numbers! Plus, it has a little popup that says “the Adobe Acrobat Update Manager needs your attention.”
Additionally, the upgrades are slow, tedious, and unstable. It’s crashed a few times, although the upgrade strangely seems to have succeeded on reboot. In conclusion, this is an example of a very bad way to push upgrades out to users.
How do I turn OFF the @$#%# time wasting Update Manager??
I just want an update maybe 2 times a year.
THANK YOU!
I found this page while searching for a way to cancel Adobe update manager.
Its such an annoying procedure (just like you described) and for such an unimportant update for an application I hardly use
I hate adobe for making me sit here at work and stare at my relentlessly rebooting PC. I hate updating it and I use acrobat all the time at work. How I hate them.
I agree. I do not understand why Adobe Acrobat updates are not cumulative. A bit ridiculous, especially given the cost of Adobe Acrobat in the first place.