I Hate The Adobe Updater

About 3 - 4 times a week it pops up and knocks me out of the game. Then, later on after I am out of game and hit it to see what it wants, it tells me I have the latest version.

This brings me to two WTFs and a question

WTF 1, I run in the native windowed mode. How can it shut the game down on me?

WTF 2, WHY? If I have the latest version does it do this?

Question, can I schedule it for a time I usually don't play? Or on system startup? Or shut it down?

fadobe.

I miss macromedia :(

You could uninstall adobe updater.

then how is she supposed to be inconvenienced by popups three times a week to the end of not actually getting any new features/functionality

Or you can go into your security settings and make it so it doesn't black out the screen every time you get a popup like that.

You could patch, security holes are the biggest way to get a drive-by exploit and lose your account.

the first big round of account hacks that took place 5+ years ago came from a hole in real player that had been patched 9 months previously.

God, you haven't got UAC still running on your computer have you?

lol realplayer...

disable uac and you can change when it notifies you in the settings.

I have mine still running tbh, I just have it at a lower setting, I use it's annoyingness to my advantage though, because I all the time am accidentally clicking the wrong thing on my taskbar, and instead of having to wait for it to load and exiting it I can just hit "no"

to each their own, and I can perfectly understand why people disable it entirely.

It shouldn't crash me if I use native windowed mode. Every other popup merely annoys.


Um.... UAC?

UAC *** with directx, so does disconnecting/adding a monitor.

so does ctrl-alt-del in windows 7, hence why I started using ctrl-shift-esc.

Anything that plays with directx will crash XI as it's in a directx wrapper.



UAC= User Account Control, a feature devised in Vista that most disable as it's annoying as ***.

lol rp indeed, but 9/10 people don't uninstall or patch that ***

disabling uac has some unintended side effects. if you aren't an administrator disabling uac on a limited account just causes things that would normally pop UAC to silently fail, which is stupid.

biggest problem with UAC is its only really useful if you know exactly what is going on with your computer at any given time. it can prevent things you don't want happening from happening but most people just click yes no matter what.

That and my free firewall blocks more stuff from happening than UAC.

UAC is a security technology built into windows that prevents programs from having administrator access unless you specifically give it to them. Generally the point of it keep one program (potentially a piece of malware) from altering another program without you specifically telling it that it can.

It has its benefits, but its also annoying and like I said earlier highly dependent on user knowledge. It doesn't do anything except annoy you if you blindly say yes to everything.

Thanks.

I'm usually about 1 or 2 operating systems behind in my knowledge base.

Desktop is XP, its the laptop that's on 7.

yeah, interestingly enough at work the adobe reader is installed via sccm, and it's supposed to have update disabled (as they have to check version updates before they do them, because they're scared it will break ***, makes sense really, considering the environment).

well I talked to the admin and they "fixed" the switch to have the update disabled, well now on imaging it won't install the reader lol...

I guess you could always find the site adobe contacts for the reader update and 127.0.0.1 it in your hosts file.

(advice: if you go to edit such a file in windows 7x64, open notepad (or w/e text editor you're using as administrator, then open the file, as it won't let you save in that location without admin rights, probably ignorable with uac disabled, but I don't have mine fully disabled so meh, I'd have to fiddle with it to see).