Acrobat 7 Pro - activation / yahoo search

[Methos74]

I appoligise if this has been aswered before, but I have not been able to find it in these forums.

Any and all help is appriciated.

I am using the Install shield tuner 7 from Adobe to create a MST for Acrobat 7 Pro and I am having problems with 2 things.

1. I cant get rid of the product activation, every time the app is installed to a PC and run it pops up asking to activate. We do not want our users to see this.

2. I also want to get rid of the Yahoo Search button off the toolbar in the program, not all our users have

internet access and yes they are they dumb to click it anyway and lock out their accounts.

If anyone can give me a heads up on how to solve this I'd be very gratefull!

thanks in advance,

The Package Noob!

[CMan]

Not sure how you missed it since it shows up right away when you search but check http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=57488

I go through how to get rid of the avtivation screen on the second page...

To get rid of search use

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\7.0\AVGeneral\cToolbars\cWebSearchView\cPositions\cInternal]

"bHidden"=dword:00000001

While your at it, you can setup which toolbars you want visible or not under the cToolbars key by changing each respective value of bHidden

[Methos74]

Thanks, the reg keys works fine but removing the ALM custom actions seems to make the program error

when trying to uninstall it, and it does stop the activation screen either. Well it didnt for me.

Any other suggestions?

[RogueSpear]

I did this so long ago, I honestly don't remember the custom action I removed, but there is one in there that when removed will eliminate the activation screen at the end of setup. Unlike Windows XP, there doesn't seem to be an auto activation. At least not one that I found. So the first time you run Acrobat Pro the activation screen will pop up again.

What I did was make up an AutoIt script to run Acrobat Pro, perform an online activation, and then close Acrobat Pro. I have the AutoIt script launch from my final RunOnceEx script so that does all this automatically at the end of the computer install.

I'm sure that there's a sample script that does this in the AutoIt scripts sticky thread.

Disclaimer: Please bear in mind that this is not an attempt to circumvent product activation, but merely to delay it in order to facilitate a truly unattended, beginning to end, computer install.

[Methos74]

Anyone got a fix for this ?

or know the custom action to remove that doesnt bork the program?

again this is for package deployment, not an attempt to get around valid product activation.

we just dont want users to do it.

[CMan]

Did you follow all the steps for the admin install the updates when you tried to install Acrobat?

I ask cause by removing those two ALM's, I've delayed the activation request until I run it for the first time with no problems. I've recreated the source multiple times and installed on multiple computers without fail.

Have you double checked that your removed the right ALM's? They all look very similar and it'd be easy to kill the wrong one..

Good luck

[Methos74]

Yer I tried, see my work does not want the activation screen at all, ever.

So I contacted Adobe for info and explained the problems with this package to management.

Easy fix, buy a dam volume licence key..

Bye Bye stupid activation..

Problem solved )