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Is there an option to turn off this GRUESOMELY ANNOYING reappearing of this shortcut?
It does this at home and at work every so many weeks. At home I can just delete it, but at work I need to ask IT department every time to do this....
Is this just commercial branding?
What is the point of having this shortcut anyway?
I can verify that the Adobe Acrobat Reader updater no longer creates an Adobe Acrobat.lnk shortcut on the Desktop. I am glad, that they finally implemented this. I was tired of deleting it with a Scheduled Task:
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Dim path
path = "C:\Users\Public\Desktop\Adobe Acrobat.lnk"
if fso.FileExists(path) then
fso.DeleteFile path
end if
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OMG, cannot believe Adobe is still doing this annoying thing. Who needs or wants or ever c;icked on Adobe Reader icon on the desktop right? This is not how this app is used IMO. I swiched to some non-Adobe alternative because of this sh*t decades ago! Not kidding, 20 years agi minimum! I installed Reader again recently and here I am, googling this for an answer again. Truly cannot believe this is happening. I hate Adobe for this ignorace towards users, and I am not alone.
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Hi there
This issue is notified to our engineering team for review.
We will share more details as we get information from the engineering team.
Regards
Amal
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Hi Team,
Checking here if there is fix for disabling Adobe desktop shortcut.
Thanks,
Pranitha
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Hi. The standard installer does not offer the traditional GUI checkboxes to create a desktop shortcut and start menu items. If you want Adobe to let you easily turn off the desktop shortcut, this should probably be the change to ask for.
To achieve this with the current version of Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, you need to use a full enterprise installer together with a matching version of the Acrobat Customization Wizard utility, which creates an .mst (Microsoft Installer Transform) file containing the desired modifications, and integrates it via a modification to the setup.ini file. You then need to reinstall Adobe Reader using setup.exe. The transform file will be remembered under C:\Windows\Installer and will reapply for all future updates. Except that for over a year, this was bugged and the desktop shortcut would be recreated after each update anyway. This was apparently fixed in april 2023.
The full procedure is as follows:
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Thank you for going through this hassle.
Much appreciated!
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We have customized, deployed the app but each time, when we upgrade the adobe via patch, this reappears.
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Would you mind sharing the version of the application and the OS you are using. To check the version go to Help > About Acrobat and make sure you have the recent version 23.03.20215 installed. Go to Help > Check for updates and reboot the computer once.
Would you mind collecting the Adobe CC logs https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-log-collector.html , Procmon logs (Win Only) https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/Labs/acromonitor.html and share them via any cloud storage. Just upload the log file to the cloud, generate the link, and share that link with us for further investigation.
Regards
Amal
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Just want to reiterate this has still not been fixed. The only way to prevent Adobe Acrobat from installing an icon on your desktop continously is to uninstall Adobe Acrobat (reccomended).
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Hi there
We are sorry to hear that the issue still appears.
Would you mind collecting the Adobe CC logs https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-log-collector.html , Procmon logs (Win Only) https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/Labs/acromonitor.html and share them via any cloud storage. Just upload the log file to the cloud, generate the link, and share that link with us for further investigation.
Regards
Amal
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Just to add more insult to this ridculus process - every time the automatic updater runs it not only creates a new deskstop shortcut, it deletes the old one first so the the new one is not where you left it.
I have now reached the point where to avoid futher fustrastion I am deleting Acrobat from my pc - will find an alternative that plays nicely.
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I find that my desktop shortcut for the reader keeps moving when I reboot my PC. Dammed annoying.