I do not like it any more than the way you make current iPods refuse to interoperate with older versions of Mac OS X, for no good reason, other than to force me to buy an unnecessary OS upgrade. I do not like you forcing me to have it in my application. Dear Apple, I understand that you want to make it easy for me to use your iTunes store. While we are about it, how can I remove that silly iDisk icon from the explorer, as I have no intention of signing up to iDisk, and how do I remove iTunes store, and iTunes match from my iTunes interface? Maybe I shall have to find a replacement for iTunes. I object to anyone else trying to take away some of that control. What idiots at these big companies think that by forcing us to run their silly utilities and making it hard to remove them they will get more business. Preview stands in for Acrobat reader, and I now use GIMP instead of Photoshop. I shall never again buy a single item of Adobe software. In the end I found every Adobe related file on my iMac, and deleted the lot. I tried everything suggested on this page, and the blasted Updater still kept coming back. P.S.: not all of the above steps are completely necessary, but without knowing exactly what's going on on your Mac I could only come up with a complete procedure

select Preferences and uncheck the checkbox 'Automatically check for Adobe updates' in the top-left corner.

start Updater from Photoshop's menu (Help / Updates) manually, this should bring up the Adobe Updater window (and the Updater is shown as a separate app in the Dock).

Photoshop) and if Updater starts and no visible window is displayed, then wait til Updater fails and exits

remove Updater's prefs from the two locations mentioned above (including the Updater5 directories).

remove Updater at /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Utilities.localized/Adobe Updater5.

remove all adobe apps with their own uninstaller (if any).

user preferences at /Users//Library/Application Support/Adobe/Updater5/*.system wide preferences at /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Updater5/*.

Did you clean up the Updater preferences too? It's not enough to remove the Updater app itself.

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