{"id":936,"date":"2008-10-01T10:58:19","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T09:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/936-adobe-media-player-adding-to-windows-bloat.html"},"modified":"2008-10-01T10:58:19","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T09:58:19","slug":"adobe-media-player-adding-to-windows-bloat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/936-adobe-media-player-adding-to-windows-bloat.html","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Media Player adding to Windows bloat"},"content":{"rendered":"

I allowed Adobe Media Player to auto-update yesterday, and noticed that it added itself to the list of applications that run automatically on startup (without asking, as I recall).<\/p>\n

This is an AIR application and has a relatively large memory footprint even when inactive, according to Task Manager. It is also currently of little use as far as I can tell; Adobe no doubt plans for it to be the next iTunes, but right now there\u2019s only a tiny selection of videos on offer, some of which report \u201cnot available in your territory\u201d if you try to play them.<\/p>\n

You can stop this software from impacting Windows performance by going to Options \u2013 Automatic notifications and unchecking Automatically launch on startup<\/strong> and Close Adobe Media Player to the taskbar<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The Windows utility msconfig is great for identifying startup applications and shows you where they can be disabled. Stripping these down to a minimum can have a marked affect on performance.<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: adobe media player<\/a>, performance<\/a>, windows<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I allowed Adobe Media Player to auto-update yesterday, and noticed that it added itself to the list of applications that run automatically on startup (without asking, as I recall). This is an AIR application and has a relatively large memory footprint even when inactive, according to Task Manager. It is also currently of little use … Continue reading Adobe Media Player adding to Windows bloat<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,58,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adobe","category-multimedia","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}