For these two keys, the best results (i.e. “best results” are that they work at all) are when I install them to HKCU, (but that, of course, doesn’t work for all users).
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\6.0\AdsInReader]
"sAdsLastUpdate"=hex:32,30,30,34,30,33,31,35,31,34,31,37,33,37,5A,00
"bShowAds"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\6.0\Originals]
"bAllowOpenFile"=dword:00000000
"iDefaultZoomScale"=dword:00000000
"bDisplayAboutDialog"=dword:00000000
"sProofingSpace"=hex:55,2E,53,2E,20,57,65,62,20,43,6F,61,74,65,64,20,28,53,\57,4F,50,29,20,76,32,00
I’ll try the advertised shortcut option as that sounds quite promising. Actually, that brings another question to mind…
I’ve been using the following command line to launch the install (with a minimum interface):
MsiExec.exe /qb /i “\Adobe Reader 6.0.1.msi” TRANSFORMS=”Adobe Reader 6.0.1.msi” I thought about using advertisement but I was unable to add the “/jm” switch into the above command line. I tried numerous combinations (before the /qb, between the /qb and the /I and after the /i) but they all produced the “Incorrect command line parameters” error message.
What’s the best way to modify or replace that command line so that I can advertise the installation? Additional info:
These first 4 work (for all users) when installed to HKLM:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\6.0\AdobeViewer]
"EULA"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\6.0\JSPrefs]
"bEnableJS"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\6.0\Search\cOptions]
"iCacheSize"=dword:00000014
"bEnableBGIndexing"=dword:00000000
"bIgnoreFH"=dword:00000000
"iMaxDocs"=dword:00000064
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\6.0\Updater]
"bShowAutoUpdateConfDialog"=dword:00000000
"bShowNotifDialog"=dword:00000000
"iUpdateFrequency"=dword:00000000
One thing I need to confirm, is whether or not installing them to HKLM causes a situation where one user changes their preferences and that changes the same preference for all the other users. I’m going to test that next…