My guess is that perhaps Adobe caught a ton of heat in years past for the sheer number of security vulnerabilities in Acrobat (and Reader, for that matter) that showed up each month. That’s why I mentioned using another program aside from Acrobat to open PDFs above.
I can tell you what changes you need to make, but every time you launch Acrobat Reader for more than maybe one actual minute, they’ll be undone and you’ll have to change them back to what they should be to prevent the automatic updating behavior you’re trying to avoid.
Yep, many browsers can open a PDF these days, but some do it better than others, and sometimes I’ve actually had to use Acrobat Reader to render a document properly in order to successfully fill out the occasional form. The short answer to your question is YES.īUT, it involves no longer opening PDFs by default with Acrobat and opening them with another program, such as Edge or Firefox (or your browser of choice if it isn’t one of those two).
But want to know (with easy to follow instructions)…
…Is there a way to COMPLETELY stop Acrobat from updating automatically? I did play around with Task Scheduler a while back, but was unsuccessful from stopping the updates.