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When starting any Adobe application the Adobe Desktop Service.exe is automatically started. I don't want this to happen so I added an entry in the registry key Computer\HKEY_USERS\{long ID of some sort}\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun the entry has the name "1" and value "Adobe Desktop Service.exe". I restarted teh computer.

Indeed, if I try to start the program (Adobe Desktop Service), myself, I get an error that it is not allowed.

However starting any Adobe product starts the program as usual.

Why is this happening and what can I do to prevent it?

user107586
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Are you sure your Adobe application can run without that service? It is easy to disable or remove it, but that might break existing software.

If the objection is that the service continues to run after shutting Acrobat, then use a script such as that below to start the service, then start Acrobat, and finally stop the service when Acrobat closes.

net start <service>
"<full path to Acrobat application>"
net stop <service>

Make a shortcut to a batch file with that script, and set it to run as Administrator, to use net command.

If you find you do not need the service at all, set it Disabled from the Services control panel, or in Regedit, at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<sevice> by setting Start to 4. An example is shown below:

Disable Service in Regedit

Anther option is to try changing the extension of Adobe Desktop Service.exe, which will prevent it from running. If that breaks Adobe products, then change it back to .exe.

DrMoishe Pippik
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