Hell No, And Please Stop Asking

July 31st, 2007 at 10:47 am by Cranky

More geekery peeves.

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15 Responses to “Hell No, And Please Stop Asking”

1. Chuck Says:
   July 31st, 2007 at 1:01 pm

   Come on … just turn it off

2. Preston Taylor Holmes Says:
   July 31st, 2007 at 1:22 pm

   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.

3. Cranky Says:
   July 31st, 2007 at 1:39 pm

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

4. Swamp Rabbit Says:
   July 31st, 2007 at 1:54 pm

   Damn, I do truly hate Adobe!

5. Music City Bloggers » Blog Archive » Cranky is cranky Says:
   July 31st, 2007 at 2:12 pm

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6. Nigel Says:
   July 31st, 2007 at 2:16 pm

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

7. See-Dub Says:
   July 31st, 2007 at 2:23 pm

   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.

8. John Carney Says:
   July 31st, 2007 at 2:40 pm

   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.

9. Paul Nicholson Says:
   July 31st, 2007 at 6:52 pm

   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.

10. Joules Says:
    July 31st, 2007 at 9:18 pm

    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.

11. JohnHenry Says:
    August 1st, 2007 at 8:28 am

    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….

12. Gordon Says:
    August 1st, 2007 at 8:58 am

    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.

13. Chuck Says:
    August 1st, 2007 at 10:17 am

    Cranky,

    I believe that JohnHenry shows how to turn it off.

    It gets harder to find in newer versions of the Reader

14. Kevin Says:
    August 4th, 2007 at 1:17 am

    oops. trying again.

    Gordon, real men use [ctrl] [printscreen]

15. anon Says:
    August 5th, 2007 at 10:45 pm

    Two words: “Foxit Reader”