Disable Acrobat DC acrotray.exe

Adobe Acrobat DC installation is very intrusive, creating things that may slow your Windows 10 down. This is how you disable the worst offenders.

Remove the update service:

1. run services.msc and look for “Adobe Acrobat Update Service”;
2. right click, “Stop”;
3. right-click, “Properties”;
4. set “Startup type” to “Disabled”.

Disable the Explorer context menu and acrotray.exe:

1. open Registry;
2. locate Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Adobe.Acrobat.ContextMenu;
3. there will be a value like {A6595CD1-BF77-430A-A452-18696685F7C7}, edit it and prefix with --;
4. locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run;
5. delete any Acrobat shit you find.