I’ve been very frustrated trying to disable Acrobat’s Outlook plugin (toolbars, additional menu) and since google found no solution I’m posting what worked for me.
- Find the location of your PDFMOutlook.dll library. This will be presumably “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0\PDFMaker\Mail\Outlook\”.
- Unregister the DLL from the system–run the following command:
regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0\
PDFMaker\Mail\Outlook\PDFMOutlook.dll" - Rename the file to “PDFMOutlook.dll.old” for instance
- Restart your now clean Outlook.
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This did not work for me. Renaming, and creating a folder with the name ‘PDFMOutlook.dll’ will stop the .dll file being recreated each time you launch Outlook (as a folder cannot be replaced by a file).
THANK YOU! The regsvr32 command did not work for me, so I renamed the file and followed the advice in the above comment and am now 100% PDFMaker-free in Outlook. Boot time for Outlook 2003 has been cut in 1/3. Sweet.
Thanks.
I had to “cd” into the directory because it didn’t work with the whole path. But it worked.
Thanks again.