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October 16, 2023
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Disabling PDF tools in Office

  • October 16, 2023
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Hi,

 

With the customization wizard, Acrobat Pro DC, I am disabling the Office plugin by setting HKLM\software\Microsoft\Office\Excel, word MS Project, Outlook\Addins\PDFMaker OfficeAddin, LoadBehavior to 0 (3 by default).

Are they other ways to prevent Office plugins appearing in Office?

Are they other downside?

 

Thanks,

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thorn-neverwake
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February 12, 2024

Would very much like an answer to this. I wish to *completely* remove all these Acrobat features from Outlook, that *I never wanted installed in the first place.*

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February 12, 2024

For Office addon:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\AVALert\cCheckbox]

"iAlwaysEnablePDFMAddin"=dword:00000002

 

For context menu:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/disable-adobe-right-click-context-menu-using-active-directory/m-p/8281486

 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Adobe.Acrobat.ContextMenu]

@="{A6595CD1-BF77-430A-A452-18696685F7C7}"

 

For Chrome extension:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Google\Chrome\Extensions\efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj]

"update_url"="https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx"

 

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Google\Chrome\Extensions\efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj]

"update_url"="https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx"

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Google\Chrome\Extensions\efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj]

"update_url"="https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx"