How can I stop Adobe's updater?

No matter what I do, C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\AdobeUpdater.dll keeps on launching in the background.
Thank you,

This is one way to disable some of the Adobe software from running, though probably not the best or only way.  It also shows you how to survey everything that's running and deal with it:
This assumes you're running Photoshop CS5:
1.  Download the program Autoruns from Microsoft:  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902
2.  Run Autoruns and look in the Logon tab.
3.  Uncheck the AdobeAAMUpdater-1.0 entry.
4.  Look in the Services tab.
5.  If you don't use Bridge, disable the SwitchBoard entry.
As you can see, Autoruns is a tool you can use to determine everything that's being run on your computer, and to disable items you don't want running.
Out of curiosity, what is the Adobe updater doing that you don't want?
-Noel

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