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Piracy is bad, and you shouldn’t do it. But that doesn’t stop many people from doing it. While it’s hard to say which company has their software pirated the most, Adobe is a company that is no stranger to the issue. They’ve tried different methods to prevent piracy, but today they’re taking a different approach, shame.
That’s right, Adobe wants to shame you into paying for the software on your computer. It’s not like the people don’t know that they’ve installed software without paying for it. But after a while you stop thinking “I’ll just open my pirated copy of Photoshop that I didn’t pay for” and thinking “I’ll just open Photoshop.” So now Adobe is going to start giving you a little reminder.
The company is starting to bundle their software with a Software Integrity Service. This checks your computer to see if it has any pirated Adobe programs on it. If it does, you’ll start getting a warning that pops up every time you open the program.
The pop up will notify you that you’re not using a genuine copy of the program, and offers up a link that you can follow. That link leads you to this page. The page essentially lets you know why you have received the notification, and gives you the option to report the company that sold you the software (if you paid for it).
What is particularly interesting isn’t what this check does, but what it doesn’t do. Since Adobe knows that you’re running pirated software, you’d think that they would disable that software. But Adobe isn’t doing that. You can continue to use the software, and simply deal with being shamed every time you open it.
So far, the piracy check is only affecting users in the US using pirated copies of Adobe Acrobat X. It will likely be expanded to other programs, such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and more.
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The problem I am having is that whatever I do or disable I cannot stop AcroTray.exe from Adobe starting at boot and doing.. whatever it is that it is doing, until it is stopped manually via task manager:
Naturally I disabled it on 'Start-up':
And even set to 'stopped' all services that are related with Adobe:
- AdobeARMService
- AGSService
Adobe DC, Acrobat Reader X & Creative Cloud are all set to manual or no updates (inside the applications).
Pool tournament software. I have tried:
- Deleting the exe - just gets put back silently, like a virus
- Quarantining the app via virus protection software - This sort of works, but I get a popup at each start up warning that AcroTray.exe has tried to start which is just as frustrating
- 'Locking' the folder via 3rd party app - stops it, but pops up a warning every boot again
I understand that this app does something but I want explicit control of when it does that and I absolutely hate that it ignores being disabled. All the other Adobe helper apps launch when one of the suite of programs is started and that is totally fine, that's what they are supposed to do, but AcroTray seemingly can't be prevented from running at boot and sitting there in the running processes, glowering at me.
Is there anyway to stop AcroTray.exe starting at boot other than uninstalling Adobe DC &/or Acrobat Reader X (that doesn't also replace it starting with some kind of warning or pop up)?
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- Go to Services.msc (hit Win and write in searchservices.msc) and run it as Administrator. Here set
Adobe Acrobat Update
andAdobe Genuine Software Integrity
Services to manuall. - From Windows Task Manager → Start-up Tab disable the Adobe related programs.
- Download Autoruns utility and disable here also various Adobe related programs like
Adobe Updater Startup Utility
andAcrobat Assistant
(AcroTray) and maybeAdobe Acrobat Synchronizer
. But be careful, if you are not sure about something,then leave it be. - Download ShellExView, go to Options and select Show 32-bitShell Ex extensions. Now disable the
Adobe Acrobat Create PDF from Selection
,Adobe Acrobat Create PDF Helper
andAdobe Acrobat Create PDF Toolbar
. Now in Options deselect Show 32-bit Shell Extensions and disable again the above items plusAcrobat Elements Context Menu
. - Now Kill the AcroTray.exe from Task Manager. Sign out and Sign in into Windows. Open Task Manager and observe the Task Manager for AcroTray.exe entry. Right Click on some .pdf file (image or office file) on your desktop and you will see that AcroTray is not starting to run anymore in your Task Manager. If this is the case you made it!
- Run
Task Scheduler
, check for Adobe Tasks (if any) and disable them.
Explanation: The first, second and third step disable Adobe related programs from running at Windows OS startup. But AcroTray.exe is invoked by right clicking on files and folders (windows context menu). It is responsible for the Adobe related entries in the context menu. The biggest problem of all is that right clicking is much slower, because AcroTray.exe must be first started.
Now AcroTray.exe won't be starting anymore when right clicking on Files/Folders. But other programs might start AcroTray.exe if there is a dependency. For example if you open Outlook 2013 and navigate to the Tab Adobe PDF and select a item from here it will start AcroTray.exe.
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The fourth step: stop invoking AcroTray.exe when right clicking on files
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For Windows 10:
- Press the Windows+R keys, type
services.msc
in the dialog box and press Enter. Once the services window is opened, double click on all the Adobe services, click Stop then click the drop down menu and select Disable. - Right click on the task bar, click Task Manager, go to Startup and disable all Adobe services.
- Press Windows+R and in the dialog box type
msconfig
, under General change from Normal to Selective startup and tick the boxes for Load system services and Load startup items.
This solved the problem for me.
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