If you happen to have Microsoft Outlook and paid Adobe huge money for Adobe PDF 7.0 Professional they want you to upgrade at a price to fix the following problem.
Across the top of the toolbar in Microsoft Outlook 2000 you will have multiple instances of the following tab
Adobe PDF Adobe PDF Adobe PDF Adobe PDF Adobe PDF
Everytime you restart your computer another one will be added.
Adobe shows its true colors. Basically they could not figure out how to fix the problem so their answer is for you to buy Acrobat 8. I do not believe this fixes the problem only stops new occurrences.
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewCont
When you install Adobe Acrobat, a toolbar is added to Word and Outlook. This toolbar can prevent you from rearranging the toolbars in Outlook (your arrangement won’t stick between restarts) and for most people, serves no useful purpose.
You have two ways to deal with this:
# Modify the setup to remove it
# Edit the registry to keep it from loading
# Extreme Fix!!
Note: This toolbar is only installed by Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional which you purchased. The free Acrobat Reader does not install this toolbar.
WARNING: Back up Outlook before you begin !!! Close Outlook
Remove It!
Go to Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs. Find the entry for Adobe Acrobat and choose Change, then select the option to Modify the installation.
Expand ‘Create Adobe PDF” and click on the Microsoft Outlook entry then choose “This feature will not be available”. If you want to remove the ability to create PDF from all of the programs listed, click on Create Adobe PDF and select this program will not be available to apply the option to each item under it.
Click Next and finish the Add/Remove wizard.
You may need to provide your Acrobat disk or installation media to uninstall it.
This will not affect your ability to print to PDF using the printer driver. This only removes the toolbars from the programs listed.
Disable It!
You may want to use it sometime or because you don’t have the installation media handy, you’ll need to edit the registry.
To prevent the Acrobat PDFMaker COM Addin from loading, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Of
Extreme Fix!
Remove it using the following instructions.
Back up Outlook before you begin !!! Close Outlook
If you loose data do not blame me.
In Windows XP
find
C:\Documents and Settings\***Your Folder***\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook
replace ***Your Folder*** with your folder!
find the file outcmd.dat and rename it outcmd.old
If you cannot find it in your version of windows use the search feature.
When you restart Outlook your toolbar will be back to its virgin settings any and all customizations will be gone!
