Feature Request: choose which plugins I want

Question

Hi,

So Adobe Acrobat Reader just updated for me. I appreciate the updates, and Adobe's reader is the best PDF reader out there.

But I have a feature request.

Please allow me, in the Preferences editor, to tell Acrobat Reader to stop re-installing and re-enabling plugins in other software packages (such as Chrome, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) that I never asked for and have switched off (I switched them off, of course, because I don't want them!).

I have attached a pretty rough sketch (I'm no graphic artist) of what it could possibly look like.

I would be deeply grateful if Adobe could accommodate this request.

S_S · Accepted Answer

Hi @Mike35497488gnun,

Hope you are doing well. Sorry for your experience with the Adobe PDFMaker plugin.

In case you are still looking for a solution and if you do not wish to use the plugin and completely remove it, here are a few registry settings that you can try:

Go to Start > Registry Editor > Location:

For x64 machine: create Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\AVAlert\cCheckbox
For x86 machine: create Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WOW6432Node\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\AVAlert\cCheckbox

Once done, create a DWORD iAlwaysEnablePDFMAddin and set it to 2.

This will ensure no dialog is shown, and the add-in will not be enabled.

Note: The registry location might differ a bit depending on the version of Acrobat /Reader you are using.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Souvik.

Mike35497488gnun · Answer

So, Acrobat Reader updated itself again today, and now these unrequested, detested plugins are back in all my non-Adobe software.

Hey Adobe: STOP IT. I love the reader, and I want it to STAND ALONE. Stay out of my other applications. Or at least give us users control to decide whether we want your plugins. As I've noted earlier, there are quite a few of us who don't.

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