In version 9, you could prevent opening of all attached files in Custom Install Wizard by checking the 'Prevent document from opening other files and launching other applications' box on the Fi… Read More

This is more an info note. When installing Adobe Reader X on an ESXi hosted vm protected mode is always disabled. Most likely due to the video driver. We tested this on Windows 7/ XP both with … Read More

On Symantec Workspace Virtualization you need to exclude [LOCALAPPDATA]\adobe\acrobat\10.0 in your exclude entries. There may be more but this is all we have found so far. Read More

It appears there are a couple more entries there is a post on symantec connect that also says you may need [APPDATA]\adobe [ALLUSERSPROFILES]\adobe http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/cann… Read More

For Reader X - Dansk 10.0.0 I used the following... Run Parameters: /i Full Command Line: MSIEXEC /I AdbeRdr1000_da_DK.msi /qn /norestart REBOOT=ReallySuppress EULA_ACCEPT=YES Read More

If you need to uncheck the mark for "Enable protected mode at startup" You can use this registry. It will migrate to current user. It sticks in HKCU even after reboot. Windows Registry Editor … Read More

For Reader 9.4.0 I used the following... Run Parameters: /msi /quiet /norestart EULA_ACCEPT=YES Read More

ADM file for Adobe Reader 10 I'm testing Adobe Reader 10 for a new revision of our SOE and I've noticed the following in the doco: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/860/cpsid_86063.html > Cannot open… Read More

Unpack: AdbeRdr1000_da_DK.exe -nos_o"C:\TEMP" -nos_ne Deploy: "C:\TEMP\Adobe_Reader_X_dk_win32\setup.exe" /sAll /rs /l Read More

If you double click the .exe and let the files get extracted, (do not go through the manual install process) you can open the "AdobeSFX.log" file located in the Temp directory and it tells you … Read More

A few simple steps to repackage Adobe Reader for unattended install. First, download the Customization Wizard (CW) from ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobat/win/10.x/10.0.0/misc/ The CW gives… Read More

For Reader X 10.0.0 I used the following... This is for silent install. Full Command Line: adberdr1000_en_us.exe /sAll /rs /l /msi /qb- /norestart EULA_ACCEPT=YES Read More

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] "Adobe Reader Speed Launcher"=- REM: Above line for Win764 removes unnecessa… Read More

The best practice related to the App-V sequencing investigated here (Thanks2Aaron): http://blog.stealthpuppy.com/virtualisation/virtualising-adobe-reader-x/ Disable Protected Mode using the f… Read More

Administrative Install Notes To make updates easier in the future we decided to try the administrative install process. We started by downloading the installer from the FTP site. See the note… Read More

To make the silent installer: AdobeReaderInstallFile.exe /sAll /rs /l /msi "/qb-! /norestart ALLUSERS=1 EULA_ACCEPT=YES SUPPRESS_APP_LAUNCH=YES" Read More

For Reader X 10.0.0 I used the following... Run Parameters: /qn /i Full Command Line: MSIEXEC /I AdbeRdr1000_en_US.msi /qn /norestart REBOOT=ReallySuppress EULA_ACCEPT=YES Read More

Machine policy location to scrobat.com in 10.0 HKLM\Software\Adobe\(product name)\(version)\Workflows > bEnableShareFile (Toggles file upload and sharing via Acrobat.com) bEnableRTCAuth (To… Read More

Adberdr1000_en_US.exe /msi EULA_ACCEPT=YES REMOVE_PREVIOUS=YES /qn This will uninstall any previous versions of Reader, and upgrade to the latest. Tested with reader 9.3.4; effectively uninst… Read More

To disable Adobe Reader X auto-update set iCheck (dword) to #0. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe ARM\1.0\ARM Registry Table: r_DisableUpdate 2 SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe ARM\1.0\ARM iCheck #… Read More

Reader 10 still uses the NOS package. To extract the files contained in AdbeRdr1000_en_US.exe issue the following command: AdbeRdr1000_en_US.exe -nos_o"Path to extract files" -nos_ne Read More

Adobe Customization Wizard 9 does not work with the unpacked file. Read More

AdbeRdr1000_en_US.exe /sAll /rs /msi EULA_ACCEPT=YES Install reader silently without reboot & already accept EULA (so end users don't have to click yes on first use) Read More

Grab the enterprise download and extract it using an unzip program (I used 7-Zip). Grab AcroRead.msi and Data1.cab and discard the rest. You can then provide whatever public properties you wa… Read More

Published the application with group policy and was getting an error message something like : "Adobe Reader requires Internet Explorer 6.0 or greater. Please go to microsoft.com to download a… Read More