How to not install/use the Browser Addon?

[thmueller]

Hello,

I want to install PDF-Xchange Viwer to many PCs, so i made a installation package and add the menubar settings via a registry script.

I have only one problem:

The PDF-XChange Addons for the Internet Explorer should not be used.
I tried to find the Option in the registry settings, but i was unable to find it.
Can someone tell me what registry key can disable the Addon?

Or is there an easier way?

[Paul - PDF-XChange]

Hi thmueller,

the best way to do this is to specify the components you want with a switch during installation. Leave out that which you don't want installed. The MSI and EXE installers use different switches but both are documented on the manual pages 11 through 17.

For example on the MSI:

ADDLOCAL
The value of the ADDLOCAL property is a list of features that are
delimited by commas, and are to be installed locally. PDF-XChange
Viewer installer defines the following features:
F_Viewer - PDF-XChange Viewer and its components;
F_Help_Viewer - Help file for the PDF-XChange Viewer (requires
F_Viewer);
F_Langs_Viewer - Localization files for the viewer (requires
F_Viewer).
F_BrowserPlugins - plug-ins for web browsers (MS Internet explorer,
Mozilla FireFox, Opera, Safari, and Chrome) which allows to view PDF
files inside these browsers. This feature requires F_Viewer feature to
be installed.
F_ShellExt - Plugins for Windows Explorer and Windows shell. These
extensions allows to view PDF thumbnails into Windows Explorer,
shows properties of PDF files, handling preview of PDF files into
Windows Vista and Office 2007, provides IFilter component which
allows Windows Desktop Search engine to make search inside PDF
files;
F_LiveUpdate - Live Update component which allows you to check
and update PDF-XChange Viewer and Shell Extensions.

Do note that use of ADDLOCAL means that you MUST specify everything you want as only those items specified will be installed. If ADDLOCAL is not used themn by default all features are installed.

Or do you want the browser plugins installed but just not set as active?

[thmueller]

Hello,

And what can i do when i install the PDFxPro?
In the manual i dont see any option for addlocal to cover out the browser plugins for PDF-XChange PRO.
I have one msi package that installs everything, i tried it like that:

msiexec.exe /i "\\location\PDFXC5Pro_x64.msi" /qb CONFIGFILE="\\location\config.ini" ADDLOCAL=F_Viewer,F_Help_Viewer,F_Langs_Viewer,F_ShellExt,F_Drivers,F_Office2PDF,F_OfficeAddin,F_Wizard,F_IEAddin

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello thmueller,

Please see a list with all the features you can select when installing the Pro bundle from .msi package.
You will need to include all the features you want installed and only omit the ones you do not want to deploy.

Best,
Stefan

[thmueller]

Hello thmueller,

Please see a list with all the features you can select when installing the Pro bundle from .msi package.
You will need to include all the features you want installed and only omit the ones you do not want to deploy.

Best,
Stefan

yes i see, but when i install with the line:

ADDLOCAL=F_Viewer,F_ShellExt,F_Drivers,F_Office2PDF,F_OfficeAddin,F_Wizard,F_IEAddin,F_OCR_Viewer

Still IE opens PDFs with the IEplugin from PDFexchange

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello thmueller,

Could it be that you had the IE Plug-in installed beforehand on the same system or are you testing on clean machines?

Best,
Stefan