[THIN] Re: anyone deploy adobe acrobat legally on citrix?

Hi Steve,

The users "virtual" HKCR is HKCU\Software\Classes. Anything in
HKCU\Software\Classes will override HKLM\Software\Classes. In your case
HKCU\Software\Classes\Software\Adobe\Acrobat\Exe should do the trick.

regards,

Rick

-- 
Ulrich Mack
Quest Software
Desktop Virtualization Division

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Steve Snyder <kwajalein@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The last piece of the puzzle is set acrobat as the default PDF app on a per
> user basis. I see the key where it can be set globally for all users
> (HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Software\Adobe\Acrobat\Exe) - would anyone happen to know
> what keys one could set in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes to override
> that?
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Steve Snyder <kwajalein@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> ah, I cna either kill "Open With" altogether by axeing HKCR\*\shellex\Open
>> with
>>
>> or
>>
>> selectively remove stuff - in this case I'd kill
>> HKLM\software\classes\.pdf\openwithlist\acrobat.exe
>>
>> Still going to demo appsense in case it can help me do other stuff.
>>
>>   On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Steve Snyder <kwajalein@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> ooh - what else can it do? End of FY spending bonanza is coming up soon
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Andrew Wood <
>>> andrew.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  If you’ve got Appsense’s Environment manager you can hide those
>>>> dialogue boxes altogether
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
>>>> Behalf Of *Steve Snyder
>>>> *Sent:* 17 July 2009 04:09
>>>> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> *Subject:* [THIN] Re: anyone deploy adobe acrobat legally on citrix?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks! That gets me 90% there. Now I just have to figure out how to
>>>> kill Adobe from the "Open With" and the "Choose Program" areas
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Webster <Webster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
>>>> Behalf Of *Steve Snyder
>>>> *Subject:* [THIN] anyone deploy adobe acrobat legally on citrix?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> basically wondering if anyone has installed it and successfully ripped
>>>> out all of its hooks so that it can only be launched directly; i.e., no
>>>> context menu access, no IE plugin, etc.
>>>>
>>>> See if this article I wrote helps any:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=10773
>>>>
>>>> Webster
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>


-- 
Ulrich Mack
Quest Software
Provision Networks Division

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