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April 3, 2020
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Disable "Go Mobile with Acrobat" advert

  • April 3, 2020
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is there a registry key to disable "Go Mobile with Acrobat" advert on he home screen in Adobe Reader DC and Adobe Acrobat DC 20.006.20042

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ls_rbls
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 13, 2020
Participant
January 19, 2022

Hello,

Actually there are three layers of banners which need to be disabled

 

1. "Go mobile with your PDF's"

Can be disabled as followed:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\HomeWelcomeFirstMile\bEnableFirstMile (DWORD 32bit) set to 0

 

2. "Work on the go with the Adobe Acrobat Reader app. (...)"

Can be disabled as followed:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\Workflows\cServices\cAcrobatApp\
bAcrobatAppInstalled (DWORD 32bit) set to 1


3. "Scan business cards, receipts, notes, (...)"

can be disabled as followed:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\Workflows\cServices\cScanApp\bScanAppInstalled (DWORD 32bit) set to 1

 

Works for Acrobat DC as well, you just need to adapt and create the entries in the hive of Acrobat DC under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\(...)

On my machine the Key "Workflows" was not existing and therefore had to be created including the sub-keys, which contain the DWORDs

 

S_S
Community Manager
Community Manager
April 25, 2025

4 years later and your info is still gold!
How did you figure this out? This is nowhere documented by Adobe. Even with processmonitor I couldn't figure out which values in the register were modified. Certainly not the values that you provided..

 

Thanks!!!


Hi @Ruben5FEF,

 

Hope you are doing well. 

 

Thanks for writing about what worked for you.

Please feel free to upvote the comment for future users to use as a reference.


Regards,
Souvik.

Participant
April 13, 2020

I have the same problem, eventhough in adobe customization, I disable advertising.