Disabling Automatic Updating for Shockwave

[nicgam]

I know that with flash you can create an mms.cfg file under
system32/macromed/flash/ but I wasn't sure about how one could go about
disabling the automatic update feature in shockwave without using the settings
manager on the adobe website. Has anyone found any information on how to do
this for shockwave?

Thanks in advance for everyone's help.

[Sean Wilson]

It's a registry string at: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Shockwave 11\AutoUpdate

[leogen]

t's a registry string at: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Shockwave 11\AutoUpdate ???

[nicgam]

Thanks for the help. I'll test this out and let you guys know how it works for me and if I run in to any issues with that registry entry.

[nicgam]

One would assume that the (Default) key which is set to "y" should now be set to "n"?

Thanks again in advance for the help!

[nicgam]

I just found that we've already set this key to "n" in the past and it has not helped.

Anyone have any other suggestions?

[nicgam]

Alrighty, I found it.

After digging and finding it on the second page of a google search, I found an
imbeded forum post under Adobe's Macromedia Web Players that seems to have
shown me a very simple answer that I didn't even bother looking for.

I was stumped at the fact that the registry key under HKLM wasn't affecting
any automatic update features of Shockwave. Further, when manually turning off
automatic updates, the registry setting wasn't being changed to "n". Curious.

In any case, it turns out the feature is under:

HKCU\Software\Adobe\Shockwave 11\AutoUpdate

Change (default) to "n"

For save measure I also mirrored the same setting in:

HKCU\Software\Adobe\Shockwave 10\AutoUpdate

Yes, the Adobe Shockwave 11 installation places the shockwave 10 folder and
registry entry in your registry and in c:\WINDOWS\System32\macromed\ after
running it for the first time in an IE window.

Hope this helps others.