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I tend to use Adobe's little-known Acrobat Customization Wizard DC for Windows[1] to disable some of the unnecessary features in Adobe Reader. It is free and do
by tech234a 6y ago
I tend to use Adobe's little-known Acrobat Customization Wizard DC for Windows[1] to disable some of the unnecessary features in Adobe Reader. It is free and does not require a license, nor does the enterprise installer for Adobe Reader require a license. Features I disable include the online subscription services (actually a checkbox labelled "Disable Upsell"), cloud storage integrations, and Adobe sign-in. I enable Protected View for documents from "potentially unsafe locations" (basically downloads/emails). You can also disable automatic updates, though I tend not to. These changes make the UI far less cluttered. I suspect that these changes also improve speed, security and privacy, though I have not done any particular testing to confirm that.
Basically you use it by uninstalling any existing Adobe Reader installations, installing the customization wizard and then downloading the enterprise installer for Adobe Reader[2] and extracting it with 7-Zip[3] (or the commands Adobe provides in the documentation). Then, you open the msp file in the wizard and customize your options. Finally, you save the changes and run setup.exe in the directory of extracted files. Once you're done, you can uninstall the customization wizard.
There is also a version of the wizard for macOS[4], but it seems to be far more limited in terms of what can be configured through the UI, and most of the configuration has to be done by manually editing plist files.
[1]: https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/Wizard/index.html https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/Wizard/in...
[2]: https://get.adobe.com/reader/enterprise/ https://get.adobe.com/reader/enterprise/
[3]: https://www.7-zip.org/ https://www.7-zip.org/
[4]: https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/AdminGuide_Mac/predeployment_configuration.html https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/AdminGuid...