Comments on: Annoying PDF Toolbar…

By: albarrs

albarrs — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 16:57:10 +0000

I am trying to find the step by step keying procedures to remove;
1) PDF Lite free PDF reader toolbar
2) AVG Anti-virus free edition toolbar

Thanks,
Al

By: David

David — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:35:23 +0000

The pdfmaker.dot file was in two locations on my computer. Deleting it from this location stopped the toolbar from appearing:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\STARTUP

By: marinildac

marinildac — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:08:20 +0000

Friends, tried everything without success. Exhausted, had an idea, and it worked: right click the Word toolbar and drag the Acrobat buttons into the dialog box. Desappeared for good! Like any other buttons…
hugs,
mari

By: John Gardner

John Gardner — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:17:10 +0000

Some of the solutions above (e.g. Waully, essdee) involve uninstalling PDFMaker as an Acrobat component. Fair enough – that certainly gets rid of the toolbars. But many of us (presumably including David) want PDFMaker to stay while getting rid of the rogue toolbar. Why? Well with PDFMaker (unlike the Distiller virtual printer) word hyperlinks are automatically preserved in the PDF document. So I recommend David’s original solution. Before you implement it, you may want to copy the first button from the rogue Acrobat toolbar onto your main toolbar so that you can still use it to access PDFMaker. (I assume that you’re still using the excellent Office 2003 rather than the grotesque 2007 version.)

By: Brandy

Brandy — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:20:05 +0000

Waully’s 01/09/07 fix did the trick. If you don’t want to mess with your registry, this is how to do it. The only caveat is you’ll need to install the Adobe Acrobat CD.

By: essdee

essdee — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:23:44 +0000

I prefer not to mess around with registy editing. I’m running Adobe 9 on Vista. The following method worked flawlessly. PDFMaker icon/toolbar now gone from all apps. During the Add/Remove/Modify process, you can even choose to leave the icon/toolbar on some apps if you want.

Simply go to Add/Remove Programs (from Control Panel), ask to Change Adobe Acrobat, choose Modify when offered the choice and deselect PDFMaker.

http://www.slipstick.com/problems/acrobat.htm

By: Hans

Hans — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:57:33 +0000

Does anyone have suggestions for a non-administrator user?
My IT-department modified and added the registry keys (posts from Jay Ma and qbrix) and I follow the suggestions from J.Vos and tm to open a new e-mail message remove the toolbar and then save it, but after a reboot they appear again.

By: Stacy Jones

Stacy Jones — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:33:01 +0000

Ok, how do I get the Adobe PDF Toolbar permanently off of my Internet Explorer browser??? And I’m not a tech, so I don’t know how to get to the HKEY…… files, so be more specific. I hate Adobe for doing this. Like I don’t already have enough toolbars that pop up on my browser, and they have to go and add a permanent one!!! Grrrr!! Thanks to all of you who answer these questions for everyone too!! Hope you can help!! Stacy >^.,.^<

By: Danila Medvedev

Danila Medvedev — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:21:00 +0000

For the sake of completeness, there is a registry entry that controls the Adobe menu in Office applications. It should be placed in HKCU\Software\Adobe\Acrobat\PDFMaker\7.0\Excel\Settings too and should be called AddMenuItem. Make it binary and set to 00. Repeat for other Office applications.

Hope this helps everyone.

Yours, Danila

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 27 May 2008 08:40:30 +0000

Waully’s solution was perfect