Acrobat is pervasive!!

[Xylob the Destroyer]

After I installed Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Pro, Acrobat buttons started showing up EVERYWHERE!
Most of the time, it was a simple right-click to get rid of the unwanted buttons.
But everytime I go into Outlook to create a new message, that damn button is back:

I've tried repeatedly to get rid of it, but it keeps coming back.
Can anybody tell me how to make it go away in new messages (including reply and forward)?
There are no settings within Acrobat itself for this stuff...

TIA!!

[lordsmurf]

Uninstall it.
Then reinstall it with custom install.
You must have let it do automatic install.

[thecoalman]

Like the AOL invasion when you installed anyting from AOL.... LOL It's everywhere....

[Morse2]

Hi Xylob;

You can also use a "shell extension editor" (easier to use than it sounds!) like the freeware program ShellEx View at http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html to remove some of the dross that programs install in your OS. When you run it, just disable every entry for the undesired program and you'll remove various "options" in the menus that are installed. You may even find your system to be more stable (I used to run into a lot of "DEP errors" that were caused by shell extensions that weren't compliant with MS latest standards - this is one way to cure the issue).

All the best,
Morse

[Safesurfer]

Found this through Google

If you use Adobe Acrobat, Outlook has a Send as PDF button on the toolbar. To remove the button, you need to disable the COM addin.

Using Regedit, Go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\ Outlook\Addins\ PDFMOutlook.PDFMOutlook

and change the LoadBehavior value from 3 to 2. Restart Outlook. The PDF functions will still be available in Word and the other Office programs.

(All Outlook add-ins load from either this key or the matching key in the Current User hive.)

[ROF]

After installing Acrobat 7 I opened an office program which prompted me to allow these macro buttons to appear. I selected "Yes" because I want them. You probably should have said "no".

[Xylob the Destroyer]

it never asked me.....
maybe it's dependent on versions of OS and Office. I'm running Win2K and Office 2003 on this particular machine.

[ROF]

WinXP Pro and Office XP pro here. It might be dependent on the software installed.

[rallynavvie]

You'd probably still want the PDF buttons in the rest of the Office apps that you have. There are just some times when printing to Acrobat doesn't grab stuff right and the PDF shortcut button does, especially with PowerPoint and Excel. IIRC the custom installer doesn't allow you to choose which apps you can install them to specifically. I'd use that registry edit to get rid of it if that works.

[Xylob the Destroyer]

hhmmm... I looked all over for info on this and came up with bupkiss!
guess I just wasn't using the correct search terms.
I did edit that registry entry and it fixed it.
Thanks Safesurfer!!!

[burnman99]

You could try Foxit Reader 1.3 it's small fast and doesn't invade like adobe does.

Roger

[Xylob the Destroyer]

this isn't the reader