bubu
6th February 2008 11:20 UTC

Adobe Reader
Hi. i want to deactivate Adobe Reader's 7 upgrade and comercials from the registry and i have no idea how to do that..not even a clue. if you had this problem and found a solution please reply to this post. thank you!

Yathosho
6th February 2008 17:58 UTC

are you certain this is done via the registry? you should use RegMon to monitor if/which key it queries.

bubu
6th February 2008 22:58 UTC

well ....
i need to place a code in the installer...for the deactivation of the upgrade and commercials for adobe...so the user does not have to. so this has to be done automatic when adobe is being installed. the same story is with jusched.exe from java... can anyone help me? i just cannot find any documentation for these.

Yathosho
6th February 2008 23:05 UTC

i understand, but i was just describing the way how to find out which registry key is used for that.. i did a quick google search and it looks like you have to look at HKLM\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\7.0\FeatureLockdown

can't confirm it, as i'm using foxit reader

Yathosho
6th February 2008 23:09 UTC

try

WriteRegStr HKCU "Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\7.0\Updater" "iUpdateFrequency" "0" ;Set automatic update interval"
WriteRegStr HKCU "Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\7.0\Updater" "bShowNotifDialog" "1" ;Disable update notification

bubu
8th February 2008 08:22 UTC

thx
just wanted to say thanks for the pointers. it helped me:)