More geekery peeves.

Posted by Cranky @ 10:47 am
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1. Come on … just turn it off

   comment by Chuck — Tuesday, July 31, 2007 @ 1:01 pm

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2. Dude - you’re totally missing out. 7.0.9 is so way better than 7.0.8. You don’t know what you’re missing.

   comment by Preston Taylor Holmes — Tuesday, July 31, 2007 @ 1:22 pm

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3. Chuck, there is no “don’t ask again” option.

   comment by Cranky — Tuesday, July 31, 2007 @ 1:39 pm

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4. Damn, I do truly hate Adobe!

   comment by Swamp Rabbit — Tuesday, July 31, 2007 @ 1:54 pm

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5. Personally, I am awaiting the roll-out of 7.0.9.5….

   comment by Nigel — Tuesday, July 31, 2007 @ 2:16 pm

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6. Argh! I get that too!

   Like I even know where my installation CD is, which Acrobat requires be in the hard drive before it installs the updates and leaves me the %&$! alone until the next series of helpful updates.

   comment by See-Dub — Tuesday, July 31, 2007 @ 2:23 pm

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7. I don’t have an IPod, and I use Windows Media. But every few days, my installation of QuickTime asks if I want to upgrade to ITunes + QuickTime. And I’ve never figured out how to turn this off without turning off update notifications for the QuickTime software itself.

   comment by John Carney — Tuesday, July 31, 2007 @ 2:40 pm

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8. Cranky: There isn’t an obvious check box in that window for “don’t ask again” but you can turn off Adobe’s auto-update feature.

   comment by Paul Nicholson — Tuesday, July 31, 2007 @ 6:52 pm

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9. I was going crazy trying to figure out how to close that Adobe Window! Finally, I realized it was your post. I feel so gullible and untechnological.

   comment by Joules — Tuesday, July 31, 2007 @ 9:18 pm

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10. What a useless POS program. Figures that most Gov’t forms are PDF that you can’t fill out without buying the whole expensive program.

    To get rid of the annoying “let me take control of your machine, stop it, and annoy you with endless notifications until you submit to my updates” screen:

    Start/programs/Adobe Reader/edit/preferences/updates/update and notification check/ then click on “do not automatically check for critical updates”.

    As if any of them are really “critical”.

    Whata buncha spuds….

    comment by JohnHenry — Wednesday, August 1, 2007 @ 8:28 am

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11. I had similar experiences trying to update Adobe as I did installing Norton.

    Thanks for the tip to turn off “automatic updates”. These software vendors really impose themselves on us.

    Joules, don’t. I work with technology all day and still can’t quite get it. Ever taken a screen shot (alt+print screen), pasted it into MS Paint and tried to click on the image’s close box? You feel like one of those parakeets who fights with his reflection in the mirror.

    comment by Gordon — Wednesday, August 1, 2007 @ 8:58 am

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12. Cranky,

    I believe that JohnHenry shows how to turn it off.

    It gets harder to find in newer versions of the Reader

    comment by Chuck — Wednesday, August 1, 2007 @ 10:17 am

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13. oops. trying again.

    Gordon, real men use [ctrl] [printscreen]

    comment by Kevin — Saturday, August 4, 2007 @ 1:17 am

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14. Two words: “Foxit Reader”

    comment by anon — Sunday, August 5, 2007 @ 10:45 pm

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