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Adobe Acrobat Toolbar Worse than Malware?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the even-the-reader-is-an-eyesore dept.

Phr3n3tik writes "Adobe Acrobat has long included a toolbar plugin to automate PDF Making from Office Products. Those who found the toolbar an eyesore, or just used it infrequently could always hide it from view. Not so in their new versions, (6, and 7 apparently.) Their new take on the PDFMaker toolbar is getting some users riled up, since it is harder to Move/Hide/Delete/Uninstall this new toolbar than many forms of malware!"

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  1. Not just 6 and 7 by SdnSeraphim · · Score: 5, Informative

    I haven't used Acrobat 4 for quite a long time. However I cannot find a way to remove the PDF toolbar even after I have removed the software completely from my machine.

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    1. Re:Not just 6 and 7 by justforaday · · Score: 5, Informative

      IIRC, it's the PDFMaker.dot file in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Startup.

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  2. How to remove... by Golgafrinchan · · Score: 5, Informative
    Here's a page that provides instructions for how to remove the Acrobat Toolbar from Word.

    Instructions

    Worked for me!

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  3. how about don't install it by michaelbuddy · · Score: 5, Informative

    I wouldn't mess with it anyway. You can use Ghostscript. And you can used the modified primo pdf from active pdf. it's a free PDF creator.

    http://www.primopdf.com

    works great. one time it will ask you for personal info after you make like 25 pdfs, but you can just push the cancel button if you don't want to give them any statistical information. It appears as a printer on your computer. I use it, it's great.

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  4. Adobe on how to completely uninstall toolbar: by TheGuano · · Score: 5, Informative
    For Windows:
    http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/328399.html

    For Mac:
    http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/329307.html

    Annoying, but at least they show you how to get around the reappear/reinstall/undeletable garbage the toolbar usually subjects you to.

  5. Toolbars are very easy to remove by megalomaniacs4u · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes the visio version of the bar is right PITA.

    The toolbars are dead easy to remove.

    1. Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs
    2. Find Acrobat Professional
    3. Click "Change", wait a little while
    4. Click "Next"
    5. Make sure the modify radio button is selected and click "Next"
    6. Expand "Create Adobe PDF"
    7. Expand "Acrobat PDF Maker"
    8. For each toolbar you want to remove click the drop-down icon and select "This feature will not be available"
    9. Hit "Next"
    10. Hit "Update" & wait a while...