Deactivating AD Bar in Silent Installation

[cs@iup]

Hello,

I would like to deactivate the AD-Bar in PDFXChange Viewer automatically in the Silent Installation.

In my case, we have bought Viewer Pro and PDF Tools. So this AD-Bart need not be seen on PDFXchange Viewer.

It seems also, that this setting has to be done for every user.
Is there a "global" setting to deactivate the AD-bar?
How can i integrate this setting in my deployment?

Thanks for (some) answers!

[Ivan - Tracker Software]

You can turn off ad-bar, export settings from the viewer (Edit->Export Settings to Data file).
Then, after installation call installed viewer with /importp <profile name> command line.

[cs@iup]

Hello Ivan,

Thank you for your quick answer.

This solution works for all settings, but has no effect on the AD-Bar settings.
It seems, that all settings could be exported/imported except the settings of the deactivated AD-Bar.

[Vasyl - PDF-XChange]

You can use this .reg file into attachment for hide AD bar.
Note: this method will works if you have PRO version on target machine, i.e. if the "key"-value under "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Tracker Software\PDFViewer\Registration" contains the valid PRO-key already.
Here is workaround only. This issue will be resolved in the next build.

[cs@iup]

Hi,
Thank's for the registry solution.

This Registry Entry is für "current_user". Therefore every user needs to import the registry.
Is it possible, to make this special setting more "general"?
(I know, commercial is a "must" and we all cannot live without )

My proposal:
If i have the PDFXchange PRO Version, i can use another parameter (like "/ADBARHIDE") in the silent installation of PDFXchange Viewer Pro.
or alternatively:
PDFXChange Viewer PRO checks on the system whether PDF Tools are installed or not and shows the AD Bar or not.

Both Versions of my proposal requires the paid Software version of PDFXChange Viewer or PDFXchange PRO (the registry-key).

[DClark]

cs@iup: Do you use a login script for your users? What we've done is added the following to our login script to hide the adbar for anyone who logs in...

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wshShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Tracker Software\PDFViewer\Registration\HideAD", 1 ,"REG_DWORD"

Our login script is a VBS script, so it would have to be modified based on what you use.

Just a suggestion.

Thanks,

Dan

[cs@iup]

Hi Dan,

Thank's for your suggestion.
I'll try it.