I spent several hours today trying to resolve the following problem: after several minutes from start, any program from Adobe Master Collection 5.5 (Photoshop CS5.1, Illustrator, Premier) will show message box with following text (MSVCR90.dll was mentioned in caption):
Runtime Error. This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it it an unusual way.
Google or Adobe Support Forums were not helpful at all, but finally I found answer at one russian forum (forum.ru-board.com, author: romby): disabled AdobeAAMUpdater in windows scheduled tasks.
Indeed, several days ago while performing background processes cleanup, I disabled that AdobeAAMUpdater-1.0-%computername%-%username% task since I don't need automatic every day checking for Adobe products updates at this particular computer. I never started any of Adobe products until today, and since some time passed I never suspected my action as reason for that problem. Re-enabling scheduled task fixed the problem, and scheduling it for the first run on 01.01.2050 did no harm and caused no failures.
While googling for solution I found a lot of questions regarding similar message boxes (even for much older releases), but I'm not sure if they have the same reason. Anyway, I can't understand how and which Scheduled Task checking code path can lead to such catastrophic program failure (awful job, Adobe), so I just hope that post will be helpful for some of you, folks.
Runtime Error. This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it it an unusual way.
Google or Adobe Support Forums were not helpful at all, but finally I found answer at one russian forum (forum.ru-board.com, author: romby): disabled AdobeAAMUpdater in windows scheduled tasks.
Indeed, several days ago while performing background processes cleanup, I disabled that AdobeAAMUpdater-1.0-%computername%-%username% task since I don't need automatic every day checking for Adobe products updates at this particular computer. I never started any of Adobe products until today, and since some time passed I never suspected my action as reason for that problem. Re-enabling scheduled task fixed the problem, and scheduling it for the first run on 01.01.2050 did no harm and caused no failures.
While googling for solution I found a lot of questions regarding similar message boxes (even for much older releases), but I'm not sure if they have the same reason. Anyway, I can't understand how and which Scheduled Task checking code path can lead to such catastrophic program failure (awful job, Adobe), so I just hope that post will be helpful for some of you, folks.
It sounds like it's one piece of an anti-piracy measure. Maybe I'm giving Adobe too much credit here.. ;)
ReplyDeleteIt might be, but I really doubt it is.
ReplyDeleteFirst changing schedule (instead of disabling a task) won't cause that error, second it actually looks like application updates checker (and nothing more).
Whatever. I just hate all this bloatware crap, AdobeUpdater, GoogleUpdater (SEVERAL instances), jusched, etc. Each application (even from same company - omg google) wants to install additional all-time-running process, with all of them together using several seconds during startup, tenths of MBs of RAM (yes, I care even with 8 gb of ram in my laptop), and who knows how many CPU cycles/context switches (hello cpu caches).