This thing parks itself in the menu bar and slows down startup, and I cannot find where it lives.

It is not in any of the startup folders nor in the user account startup item list.

Does anyone know how I can get rid of this thing I try to keep a lean system and I will check for updates myself, I very much dislike all these programs leaping into action when I startup the machine but for some reason the Adobe updater is not following the rules and is being clever.

And I assume it is not inserting this thing into the OS X UNIX boot process.

Hence I thought to ask OS X folks first, thinking it would also be quicker.

Turn off the check box for Notify me of new updates in the menu bar.

What I wonder though is how did this application get started up I cannot find it in any of the usual startup places.

I work with Windows machines as well as OS X and Linux and there are a whole world of mechanisms to get applications going at startup, some of which are fiendishly tricky to identify.

Outside of the Unix startup mechanism that Apple employs to get OS X cranked up, there are the system and user LibraryStartupitems and then the list of items in the user account.

Tech Tool Pro also has a self placing icon for the menu bar, which can only be disabled from its System Preferences applet.

Ive checked these and the only slightly relevant thing is a com.adobe.ARM plist in the user LaunchAgents folder.

Ive also checked the system list of registered launchd items and found nothing.

It also potentially wouldnt remove any mechanism that the updater is using to run itself on startup.

The updater app is contained somewhere within the app bundle, as is an install checklist.

Checked the content and there are these lines (amongst others).

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