A Step-by-Step Guide to Silently Installing and Configuring Adobe Reader 8

December 9th, 2006 · 40 Comments · 61,788 views

This is part of my series on How to Install Windows Applications Silently.

With Adobe recently releasing version 8 of Reader, it’s time to prepare it for inclusion in the images I create for distribution to my users machines. I like to assemble an ‘unattended’ or ’silent’ install of the package that includes every alteration I might normally want to make so from that point forward I only need to double-click and the install is done perfectly every time. You’ll want to read my article “A Guide to Installing Windows Applications Silently” to get instructions on the basic groundwork you should layout first.

You’ll need to create a folder to hold the distribution. If you followed the instructions in the intro article, you’ll already have an %APPS% folder. Create a directory called Reader8 inside your %APPS% directory. You can then download Reader from Adobe here, saving it to the Reader8 folder. I’m using the English 32-bit version for Windows XP SP2 (the file is called AdbeRdr80_en_US.exe), if you are using a different version, it’s possible their could be some differences in how the install works.

Create a text file called Install.bat in your Reader8 directory (see my article “How to Create a Text File” for tips on how to do this). In this text file, place the following:


@ECHO OFF
ECHO Installing Adobe Reader 8

start /wait AdbeRdr80_en_US.exe /sAll

:: Begin cleaning up shortcuts
	del "%allusersprofile%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\Adobe Reader Speed Launch.lnk"
	del "%allusersprofile%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\Adobe Reader Synchronizer.lnk"
	del "%allusersprofile%\Desktop\Adobe Reader 8.lnk"
:: End cleaning up shortcuts

:: Begin adding HKLM settings to registry
	reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\8.0\AdobeViewer" /v EULA /t REG_DWORD /d 00000001 /f
	reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\8.0\AdobeViewer" /v Launched /t REG_DWORD /d 00000001 /f
	reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\8.0\Downtown" /v bDontShowAtLaunch /t REG_DWORD /d 00000001 /f
:: End adding HKLM settings to registry

:: Begin Copy Adobe Updater preference file to all profiles
	for /f "tokens=* delims=," %%a in ('dir %systemdrive%\docume~1 /b /ad') do call :process "%%a"
	goto :eof

	:process
	if [%1]==["All Users"] goto :eof
	if [%1]==["LocalService"] goto :eof
	if [%1]==["NetworkService"] goto :eof
	xcopy AdobeUpdaterPrefs.dat "%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\%~1\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Updater5\" /Y/I
:: End Copy Adobe Updater preference file to all profiles

exit

Only one line from the script is required to do a silent install of Reader 8, the rest are there to alter the installation to suit my needs. I’ll explain what everything is for, and you can decide if you want to keep it or toss it.

The first line simply says not to echo every single event back to the command prompt screen when the script runs. The second line prints “Installing Adobe Reader 8″ in the window so a viewer can tell what the window is there for. The next line is the one that installs Reader. the start /wait part tells the command to wait until it’s finished before moving on to the rest of the script. This is important as some of the other commands won’t work unless the Reader installation is finished. The /sAll part is a switch to tell the program to install silently with the default options. The other available switches are:

/sPB - silent mode with progress bar
/rs - reboot suppress
/rps - reboot prompt suppress
/ini “path” - alternative initialization file
/sl “lang_id” - set language
/l - enable error logging
/msi [command line] - parameters for MSIEXEC

Once it finishes, I use the next section of the script to clean up the shortcuts. I prefer not to have the software load when Windows starts, so the first two lines remove shortcuts from the Startup folder. Speed Launch pre-loads Reader every time you start your machine, so it comes up on the screen faster when you need it, but takes up some of your RAM all the time, which I don’t like. Synchronizer is new in this version, and though I can’t find info on what it does, I suspect it’s related to the new work flow feature, which I don’t have a need for. The third shortcut is the one Reader creates on the desktop. I prefer a clean desktop, so I delete this one as well.

Thanks to a tip in the comments, I’ve simplified the next section. It previously had you put the following code in the script above where the HKLM code now sits:


:: Begin adding HKCU settings to all profiles
	regedit /s HKCU.reg
	copy HKCU.reg %temp%\HKCU.reg /Y
	start /wait ..\changeHKCU.vbs
	start /wait ..\ModifyProfile /PROFILE:all /REG:%temp%\HKCU.reg /KEYNAME:TempHive
	del %temp%\HKCU.reg
:: End adding HKCU settings to all profiles

These settings will prevent the user agreement from popping up for every user, and stop the ‘Beyond Adobe Reader’ window from popping up every time as well. As the comment points out, you can put the registry changes in the same location of HKLM that I was putting in HKCU. This simplifies the process, not requiring an additional file to be created, or the support vb scripts to exist. For the sake of completeness, here is the text explaining the replaced code that is no longer needed:

The next section sets some preferences in the users registry settings. To do this, you’ll need to create another text file in the Reader8 folder. Create HKCU.reg and put the following contents inside:
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\8.0\AdobeViewer]
"EULA"=dword:00000001
"Launched"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\8.0\Downtown]
"bDontShowAtLaunch"=dword:00000001
Applying these settings will prevent the user agreement from popping up for every user, and stop the ‘Beyond Adobe Reader’ window from popping up every time as well. The Install.bat file first adds these settings to the registry of the person running the script, then the extra tools you put in your %APPS% folder from the Guide article will apply the settings to all other users profiles, including the ‘default’ profile, so future users will get the settings as well.

The next section of the Install.bat file is used to disable automatic updates. In my environment, users don’t have rights to install applications, so they can’t apply updates to software either. No need for them to be bothered by update notifications then, so I disable updates, not only for Reader, but for all Adobe software (they now have an update program that is shared by most of their software). You’ll need to create another text file in your Reader8 folder, this one called AdobeUpdaterPrefs.dat. In this file, place the following code:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

<AdobeUpdater>
<logFile>%temp%\Adobe\Updater5\aum.log</logFile>
<logLevel>2</logLevel>
<SilentCheck>0</SilentCheck>
<Launch></Launch>
<IsFirstRun>0</IsFirstRun>
<InTrayIcon>0</InTrayIcon>
<LastDateCheck>2006-12-06</LastDateCheck>
<InBackground>0</InBackground>
<DownloadDir>%temp%\Adobe\Updater5</DownloadDir>
<ShowNewProducts>0</ShowNewProducts>
<AutoCheck>0</AutoCheck>
<AutoCheckType>0</AutoCheckType>
<AutoCheckFreq>1</AutoCheckFreq>
<ApplicationsEnabled>
<MapPrefEntry MapPrefKey="reader8rdr-en_US">0</MapPrefEntry>
</ApplicationsEnabled>
</AdobeUpdater>

This is the preference file that is created the first time the Adobe Updater is run. I’ve customized it slightly, changing the path for the log file and for the download location so the same file will work for all users. I then change the <AutoCheck> setting to 0, so the updater doesn’t run. Note that if you use this section of the Install.bat file and a user already has an Adobe product installed, the preference file for their updater will be overwritten and set to not update. Again, in my environment this is desirable but if you’d prefer to receive updates, just delete that section of the Install.bat file, and you won’t need the AdobeUpdaterPrefs.dat file.

With the preference file in place, the rest of that section of the Install.bat file looks at all the available profiles on that computer and copies the preference file to each.

So, when you are done, you should have four files in your Reader8 directory:

AdbeRdr80_en_US.exe
AdobeUpdaterPrefs.dat
HKCU.reg
Install.bat

Now simply launch Install.bat by double-clicking it, or by calling it from another script, and Adobe Reader 8 will silently install on your computer, and perfectly configure itself to your preferences every time.

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travelling without moving : Deploying Adobe Reader 8

Dec 12, 2006 at 5:39 pm

[...] Deploying Adobe Reader 8 Now that Adobe Reader 8 has been released and the setup routine has changed slightly, we’ll have to jump through hoops again to get this new version deployed. Here are a few things that I’ve found in regards to deployment in a corporate environment: Here’s a direct link to the download for Adobe Reader 8.0; The installer weighs in at 20.8Mb; It requires Windows Installer 3.0 and appears to require a minimum of Internet Explorer 6.0; Adobe Reader 8 uses a newer version of the Netopsystems FEAD setup routine; Adobe Customization Wizard 8 is “coming soon”; On Windows Vista, setup files are unpacked to %USERPROFILE%AppDataLocalLowNetopsystemstempAdobe Reader 8.0 On Windows XP/2003, setup files are unpacked to %USERPROFILE%\Local SettingsTemp1Adobe Reader 8.0 (The folder 1 may change); After Reader is installed, setup files are located at %ProgramFilesAdobeReader 8.0Setup Files{AC76BA86-7AD7-1033-7B44-A80000000002} Setup switches have changed, here’s the full list: Switch Description /sAll Silent Mode for product /sPB Silent Mode with Progress Bar for product /rs Reboot Suppress /rps Reboot Prompt Suppress /ini “PATH” Alternative initialization file /sl “LANG_ID” Set Language; LANG_ID - Code in decimal digits /l Enable Error Logging /msi[Command line] Parameters for MSIEXEC If you want to perform a silent install directly from the download, use the following command: AdbeRdr80_en_US.EXE /sPB /rps /msi”ALLUSERS=TRUE EULA_ACCEPT=YES SUPPRESS_APP_LAUNCH=YES” To perform an silent install from the unpacked setup files use the following command: SETUP.EXE /sPB /rps /msi”ALLUSERS=TRUE EULA_ACCEPT=YES SUPPRESS_APP_LAUNCH=YES” or MSIEXEC /I AcroRead.msi ALLUSERS=TRUE EULA_ACCEPT=YES SUPPRESS_APP_LAUNCH=YES REBOOT=REALLYSUPRESS /QB- A second shortcut is now added to the Startup group - Adobe Reader Synchronizer as well as the Adobe Reader Speed Launch shortcut; At launch, Adobe Reader reads the HKLMSystemCurrentControlSetControlTerminal Server registry key. Will it perform differently on a Terminal Server? It appears to launch quite quickly; It also reads this registry key HKLMSOFTWAREPoliciesAdobeAcrobat Reader8.0FeatureLockdown which could mean that an ADM/ADMX file exists or is coming to manage Adobe Reader via Group Policy; You can set this DWORD value in the registry: HKCUSoftwareAdobeAcrobat Reader8.0AVGeneralbDocumentsInTaskbar, to force Reader to display a separate window for each document, just like Microsoft Office; There are no ads in the toolbar as in previous versions; It includes nice new fancy 256 x 256 pixel icons (click each one for a larger view): There are a lot of things left to find and I’ll update this post as I find them. UPDATES: AppDeploy.com has been updated with an Adobe Reader 8 specific entry: http://www.appdeploy.com/packages/detail.asp?id=915 Set this DWORD value to 1 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareAdobeAcrobat Reader8.0DowntownbDontShowAtLaunch and this DWORD value to 0 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareAdobeAcrobat Reader8.0DowntownbGoOnline, to supress the Beyond Adobe Reader window and feature; The Adobe Updater is installed along with Reader to here: %CommonProgramFiles%AdobeUpdater5 Adobe Updater has created a folder in my Documents folder: DocumentsUpdater5AdobeUpdaterreader8rdr-en_US So Joe has an excellent post on installing Adobe Reader 8: A Step-by-Step Guide to Silently Installing and Configuring Adobe Reader 8 Published Thursday, 7 December 2006 12:15 AM by Aaron Parker Filed under: Scripted, Adobe [...]
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Jan 4, 2007 at 11:46 am

[...] or even better, check out this script for removing all ancilary Adobe shortcuts. [...]
Tomasz Ostrowski

Jan 10, 2007 at 11:04 am

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\8.0\AdobeViewer]
“EULA”=dword:00000001
“Launched”=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\8.0\Downtown]
“bDontShowAtLaunch”=dword:00000001

This regedits work for every user when installed under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE instead of HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
Tomasz Ostrowski

Jan 10, 2007 at 11:17 am

This not-so-cute snowflakes on this page make a browser to use 100% of processor power. At least on firefox but I suppose others too. This is not nice.
Joe

Jan 10, 2007 at 1:38 pm

Thanks for the heads up on the snowflakes, I’ve disabled them until I can make them work efficiently.

You are right about moving the registry settings to HKLM. I just tested it and it works perfectly, which simplifies the install. I will note the necessary changes in the post. Thanks again!
Moodi El-Hajj

Jan 14, 2007 at 1:29 am

Hi guys !

What a wonderful topic we have here…i am currently running a windows 2000 domain server and i need to upgrade to Adobe 8

The steps are so useful..i integrated the steps into the windows login script so that it will luanch every time a user logs in to his machine..

HOWEVER the problem is with users who SO NOT have administrative priviliges on their machine..how can we pass the admin user name and password without the user detecting them ?

Regards !
Joe

Jan 14, 2007 at 10:27 am

I’m not aware of a way of doing a ‘run as admin’ through a login script. I think you’d need to instead create a package with software like Prism Pack, save as an msi, and deploy through a GPO. That’s the only way I know (besides previously installing the Prism Pack client on every machine and deploying through it’s console) to slide under the user account rights.
SYED

Jan 15, 2007 at 2:38 am

Dears..
Need the way to go as Modi searching for.
I also need to put admin user on the script to insatll adob 8 on client because they dont have admin rights on machines.

In the script puting admin user & password not advisible but can be maintain with temp user.

Thanks
SYED
Erik Cordell

Jan 16, 2007 at 10:57 am

I get an error when installing but it still works….:

Windows Script Host

Script: P:\ChangeHKCU.vbs
Line: 1
Char: 22
Error: Expected end of statement
Code: 800A0401
Source: Microsoft VBScript compilation error
Joe

Jan 16, 2007 at 11:15 am

Ah, looks like the problems I was having with the plugin that shows code affected the script in that post. I’ve fixed it, go back to http://sojoe.info/?p=60 and recreate the ChangeHKCU.vbs file with the code that is now properly displaying there.
Erik Cordell

Jan 16, 2007 at 11:30 am

Thanks Joe, this is working like a charm now……anything you can think of for nothing to show up on a users screen at all, no command prompt window no nothing? I would like to push this install out completely silent so the user doesn’t know anything happened…….Thanks
Joe

Jan 16, 2007 at 11:38 am

The method I outline works great for image building, or the occasional install, but for pushing out to users, something like Prism Pack is really a better tool. You can either use the Prism Pack console to push the software, or use it to create msi’s that can then be pushed with your Active Directory GPO’s.
Erik Cordell

Jan 16, 2007 at 1:23 pm

Joe, I’ve also found that there is a .msi in the following path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 8.0\Setup Files\{AC76BA86-7AD7-1033-7B44-A80000000002}. Can the AcroRead.msi be used somehow?
Joe

Jan 16, 2007 at 2:13 pm

I’d bet you could deploy that with a GPO, but you’d need to modify the msi if you wanted to change some of the configuration settings (or create your own administrative template for the GPO to modify those registry settings). I haven’t played with that kind of deployment for quite a while, so I’m not qualified to talk much about it now.
Tashmoohi

Jan 19, 2007 at 2:03 pm

Wondering if there is a way for it to dectect if Reader 8 is already installed and, if so, abort. As now it prompts the user for Repair/Uninstall.

In a perfect world it would kill the install, but proceed to disable the update features.
Ideas?
Joe

Jan 19, 2007 at 2:22 pm
I don’t have time to test it right now, but you could put the following line at the beginning of the script:
```
if exist "%programfiles%\Adobe\Reader 8.0\Reader\acrord32.exe" exit
```
Michael

Jan 25, 2007 at 3:52 pm

Thanks Joe

This looks like it will work with SMS, which is exactly what I needed!
Carol C

Feb 5, 2007 at 5:32 pm

So I have tried to remove all Acrobat files because Reader 8.0 started installing on the wrong drive, with too little memory available, etc. (w/o permission of course). I have been unable to reinstall - “Error 1714. The older version…cannot be removed”. Used instructions for manual removal of Acro 6 but cannot find such instructions for 8. Can anyone help? I really don’t want to have to reformat and reload.
Joe

Feb 6, 2007 at 8:57 am

Wow, I’m not sure what you can do in that situation. I googled around a bit and couldn’t find any pointers on manually uninstalling Reader 8. I’m betting it’s looking to the registry to see if it’s been installed, so removing the branch at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\8.0 might work, but it could be a registry setting somewhere else (or it could even be looking for some files).
Carol C

Feb 8, 2007 at 6:46 pm

Joe, you’re an inspiration!
I cleaned up all kinds of stuff and deleted every Adobe entry I could find, still nuttin. Went to adobe and searched for “remove 7.0.8″ (since that was the version still listed in add/remove programs) and found a technote (www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?event=view&id=KC.330497&extid=330497&dialogID=44082140&iterationID=1&sessionID=48305f3c27e123623341&stateID=0+0+3472854&mode=simple) which referred me to the Microsoft Windows Installer CleanUp Utility - msicuu2.exe (download.microsoft.com/download/e/9/d/e9d80355-7ab4-45b8-80e8-983a48d5e1bd/msicuu2.exe). The technote also lists a lot of the registry entries Adobe makes. It cleaned up the entries for Adobe made by the installer and I was finally able to reinstall. I chose 7.0.9! Now I have to reinstall a few other programs…Thanks for the feedback and thanks for being there!
Carol
Joe

Feb 8, 2007 at 11:57 pm

Sounds like you did all the work (glad if I can be an inspiration), but thanks for the details! Hopefully someone else can benefit from your efforts, and maybe they’ll share with someone else as well.
Kerri

Feb 23, 2007 at 1:24 pm

This is GREAT, but I do have 1 question. I need to disable the Display PDF in browser setting. Is there anyway to do this? I found the reg key but just switching it doesn’t work. When you uncheck this box in Reader it looks like it removes from files and therefore the reg key option doesn’t work. Plus it works on some of my users but not all of them????

Joe

Feb 26, 2007 at 12:53 pm

Kerri: I just tried playing with it and I had luck with the following registry setting:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Features\68AB67CA7DA73301B7448A0000000020]
"ReaderBrowserIntegration"="ReaderProgramFiles"

NOTE: It’s not displaying properly on the webpage, I’ll e-mail the reg file to you, it has some kind of non-standard character in it just before the ‘ReaderProgramFiles’ part.

David

Feb 26, 2007 at 6:00 pm

In addition to the silent install, my users need the Search button and the Previous View and Next View buttons to be visible on the toolbar. I have a large number of .pdf’s that my users will need to search, so just having the Find box visible is not sufficient. My users are not likely to know how to make those buttons visible, so I need to do it as part of the install.

Do you have any idea what registry setting(s) or whatever else I need to include in my install to make those buttons visible?

Thanks!
David
David

Feb 27, 2007 at 5:12 pm

For what it’s worth:

I don’t really know what I’m doing with installation packages, but I was able to use Adobe Customization Wizard 8 to create a Reader 8 install that shows the buttons I want by default.

To create the package, I installed Reader 8, customized the toolbar to display the buttons I want, then used the ACW8 to copy
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\8.0\AVGeneral

and all it’s sub-entries from my computer to the install package. ACW8 also has a number of other settings (including silent or unattended install, turning off the EULA, turning off Beyond Reader) that I found helpful.

I was surprised to discover that when I switched to another user, the buttons I wanted were visible by default. I don’t know much about installation and registry stuff, but I expected since the keys I set were in HKCU, that other users would not get those settings. Happily, that doesn’t appear to be the case.
chitu

Mar 6, 2007 at 6:02 am

Hi,
I am trying to install Adobe 8.0 in silent mode on a Windows 2003 Server where terminal services are installed. When ever Adobe installer is launched, a dialog comes saying “After installation,Please click Next”, once Next button is clicked, another dialog comes saying to click finish. (Title of the dialog is “Finish Admin Install”)

Any idea, why this dialog is coming…and wht it means.
Greg_SYSEng

Mar 21, 2007 at 9:16 am

Hello Whizbangs,

Great info here thanks very much.

I have a quick question about setting adobe reader 8 as the default pdf reader through HKLM keys. Can anyone provide this please?
Post here or in email would be appreciated.

Thanks again for this valuable site.
Maiya Konanur Cox

Mar 28, 2007 at 11:20 am

Thanks for these Awesome Tips.
I’m experiencing a problem with copying the Adobe Updater preference file to all profiles for my environment - your process calls ‘dir %systemdrive%\docume~1 /b /ad’ to grab the list of current users on the machine and my company places the user profiles on a non-system drive (D:\) is there a windows variable I use to find user profiles not located on the system drive or am I going to have to hard code the drive letter? (For example: Change ‘dir %systemdrive%\docume~1 /b /ad’ to ‘dir D:\docume~1 /b /ad’ )
Thanks for your help and the site is great.
Joe

Mar 28, 2007 at 11:52 am

If the location is consistent (they are all in the same place) then I’d say hard coding would be the best/easiest solution. The only other options I can think of would be a script that does a search for ntuser.dat files to locate profiles, or grabbing a value from the registry. Both are doable, but I sure wouldn’t know how without a lot of research and trial-n-error.
Maiya Konanur Cox

Mar 29, 2007 at 2:03 pm

Hi There,
I have to share this with you - a co-worker of mine showed me the Adobe Customization Wizard 8 that allows you to tweak any Adobe Product prior to deploy. With this wizard, I was able to create a transform to disable everything I wanted (even Auto Updates) and hide menu options. Unbelievable.
Check out the site:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/solutions/it/deployment.html
Wow.
Joe

Mar 30, 2007 at 12:17 pm

I had played with that once when using version 7, I’ll have to take another look at the latest version. Thanks for the info!
Mike

May 24, 2007 at 3:08 pm

For those of you struggling with Adobe 8 installs. You really should try the Adobe Customization Wizard. I am no fan of Adobe, but this thing they did right. I have build many, many MSI files using every possible editor and this one is great. Simple and effective. Plus good documentation. It will take much of the headache out of scripting your installs. You might still need to know how to scrip for special things but most of what you need will be in the ACW8. This thing simply rocks. Download it, use it, love it. Still hate Adobe. Thatâ€™s my thoughts. BTW Adobe 8 uninstalls previous versions of Adobe automatically I think.
Jon

Jun 21, 2007 at 4:36 pm

How would one go about installing to a different directory than the default C:\Program Files\Adobe directory?
Etech

Aug 8, 2007 at 1:48 pm

I created the MSI and used the wizard but my issue is the uninstalling of the old versions. I thought 8 does remove older versions, since it is greyed out in the wizard. I sent it out via gpo and had no issues installing.

How to uninstall older versions, anyone?
fxyjg

Sep 25, 2007 at 7:24 pm

but I can not find acrRead.msi
why?
http://www.istuvc.cn
Peter

Oct 31, 2007 at 11:12 am

if exist “%programfiles%\Adobe\Reader 8.0\Reader\acrord32.exe” exit

This works fine at surpressing the window if it is already installed but I am having a problem with going from 8.0 to 8.1.1. The directories are the same so it will cancel out the install even though the versions are different. Any suggestion on how to stop the unistall/admin window coming up the second time this script runs if you are installing a newer version of 8.0?
John

Nov 2, 2007 at 7:19 am

if exist “%programfiles%\Adobe\Reader 8.0\Reader\acrord32.exe” exit

Try using “ccme_base.dll” or some other version unique file in place of “acrord32.exe”.
Jay

Nov 15, 2007 at 1:11 pm

Thanks for the Adobe tips and all the work you have put into the Guide for silent Windows app installs!
Marc

Feb 1, 2008 at 3:26 pm

Great tips! However, the registry entries are different in Win2k than in XP so I’m having problems automating the feature lock downs for Windows 2000.
stealthpuppy / Deploying Adobe Reader 8.0

Feb 12, 2008 at 12:34 pm

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