Disable JavaScript in Acrobat Reader

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Does anyone know where Acrobat Reader stores the setting to disable JavaScript?

I’d like to centrally apply an update (through a policy, or a startup script, or a login script) on every machine on our network rather than sending everyone an email telling them to do it.

Ref: How To Geek has a way of doing this (and an explanation why) through the UI, but I want to do it centrally for 700 users.

Answer

We’re using Group Policy to push this preference. If you’re running the Client-Side Prefs extension, you don’t even need to craft an ADM, you can just push the values. Please note that you will have to edit the “9.0” to match your major version of Adobe Reader.

Credit for the keys/values from here: http://www.acrobatusers.com/forums/aucbb/viewtopic.php?id=17210

ADM:

CLASS USER
CATEGORY "Software Settings"
  CATEGORY "Adobe"
    CATEGORY "Reader"

      POLICY "bConsoleOpen"
        KEYNAME "Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\JSPrefs"
        VALUENAME "bConsoleOpen"
          VALUEON    NUMERIC 1
          VALUEOFF  NUMERIC 0
      END POLICY

      POLICY "bEnableJS"
        KEYNAME "Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\JSPrefs"
        VALUENAME "bEnableJS"
          VALUEON    NUMERIC 1
          VALUEOFF  NUMERIC 0
      END POLICY

      POLICY "bEnableMenuItems"
        KEYNAME "Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\JSPrefs"
        VALUENAME "bEnableMenuItems"
          VALUEON    NUMERIC 1
          VALUEOFF  NUMERIC 0        
      END POLICY

    END CATEGORY
  END CATEGORY
END CATEGORY

Attribution
Source : Link , Question Author : Richard Gadsden , Answer Author : jscott

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