What is Adobe Common File Installer?

Adobe Common File Installer is software application developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 55.97% of installations running this operating system. Adobe Common File Installer's installer is typically 533.00 KB in size and installs around 107 files. The most common release is 1.00.0000 with 44.03% of all installations currently using this version.

Adobe Common File Installer is most popular in the United States with 33.89% of installations residing in this country.

Adobe Common File Installer adds 3 scheduled tasks to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times. When using a computer that is connected to the internet, Adobe Common File Installer is known to create 2 firewall exceptions to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

About Adobe Common File Installer?

The Adobe Common File Installer is designed to facilitate the installation of shared components across various Adobe programs. Removing this program may result in a loss of functionality for certain features within related programs.

Software Behaviors

Services:

armsvc.exe runs as a service named 'Adobe Acrobat Update Service' (AdobeARMservice) "Adobe Acrobat Updater keeps your Adobe software up to date.".
SwitchBoard.exe runs as a service named 'Adobe SwitchBoard' (SwitchBoard) "Adobe SwitchBoard".

Firewall:

AdobeUpdater.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Updater5\AdobeUpdater.exe'.
AdobeARM.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\ARM\1.0\AdobeARM.exe'.

Scheduled tasks:

AdobeARM.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Programma di aggiornamento online di Adobe' (runs weekly on Mondays at 10:00 AM).
updaterstartuputility.exe is scheduled as a task named 'AdobeAAMUpdater-1.0-John-PC-John' (runs daily at 02:00).
AdobeUpdater.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Adobe online update program' (runs weekly on Mondays at 10:00 AM).

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:

AdobeARM.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named Adobe Acrobat Update Task.

Registry entries:

AdobeUpdater.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'AdobeUpdater' and executes as "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Updater5\AdobeUpdater.exe".
Adobe_Updater.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'AdobeUpdater6' and executes as "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Updater6\Adobe_Updater.exe".

Software Details

URL:

https://www.adobe.com

Support:

https://www.adobe.com/help

Installation path:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\

Uninstaller:

MsiExec.exe /I{8EDBA74D-0686-4C99-BFDD-F894678E5101}

Size:

533.00 KB

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