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If
you're like the rest of us and it
drives you nuts when you open your
Microsoft Outlook or any other
application and a 3rd party add-in
toolbar (which you were never asked
if you wanted or not) appears atop
your screen taking precedence over
all the others. It's almost as bad
as the pesky icons that appear in
your taskbar tray that rob your
computer of precious memory just so
they can load a program faster you
never ever use but once in a blue
moon, if ever.
Here's
how to remove them for good or just
disable them from loading until you
actually want to use them.
Note:
Acrobat's toolbar is only installed
by Adobe Acrobat if you actually
purchased it. The free reader does
not install this toolbar.
To
remove it from your computer
completely, select Add/Remove
Programs from Control Panel and find
the entry for Adobe Acrobat. Select
Change, then the option to Modify
the installation.
Expand
"Create Adobe PDF" and click the
Microsoft Outlook item then select
"This feature will not be
available". If you want to be able
to remove creation of PDF's from all
the programs listed, click on
"Create Adobe PDF" and select "This
program will not be available" to
apply the option to each item
underneath it.
Click
Next and Finish the Add/Remove
Wizard.
You may
need to provide your Adobe
installation disk to un-install.
This
change will not affect being able to
print to PDF it just simply removes
the toolbars from the programs
you've selected.
If you'd
like to disable it completely you
will have to modify your systems
registry.
To
prevent the PDFMaker COM Addin from
loading open regedit and navigate
to: HKEY_LOCAL_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins\PDFOutlook.PDFMOutlook
and change the LoadBehaviour value
from 3 to 2. Restart Outllook and
the toolbar is gone!
When you
use this method, the PDF functions
will still be available.
Note:
Installing Adobe Acrobat updates may
reset the registry key and you can
use the same method for other
software programs too.
To
simply hide the toolbar button,
create the OutlVisible value:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat\PDFMaker\7.0\Outlook\EmailToPDF
Value Name:
OutlVisible
Value: 0
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