Thursday 21 July 2011

Adobe CS5 - disabling various auto updates

The solutions for disabling the various auto updates in the Adobe CS5 suite is as follows:
(The disabling of the application update itself isn't covered and is done by using the Adobe Application Manager Enterprise Edition utility.)
Adobe Help.exeThe solution to the Adobe Help application is to set the read-only attribute (using attrib.exe or similiar utility) of an xml file.
%APPDATA%\chc.4875E02D9FB21EE389F73B8D1702B320485DF8CE.1\Local Store\#ApplicationUpdater\state.xml
Adobe AirThe solution to disabling the Adobe Air auto updater is to create an empty file named updateDisabled and to put it in the following directory %APPDATA%\Adobe\AIR
Adobe Media PlayerThe solution is to add the following values to the file prefs.xml located in %APPDATA%\Adobe\Adobe Media Player\Local Store\settings

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