How to remove "Combine supported files in acrobat" after installing acrobat 8/9

• Apr 4, 2008 at 4:47 AM
• 2 comments

I'm a big fan of foxit pdf reader and cutePDF writer but every once in awhile I install Acrobat just to see if Adobe has improved upon it. read: made it suck less

Unfortunately this time is no different but sometimes I run into a pdf Foxit can't render properly so I'll keep it on hand for emergencies. Here's how to get rid of that nasty context menu item that shows up after you install Acrobat. Like most imposed context menu items, I don't think it has been ever used in the history of computing.

32bit users:
@echo off
regsvr32 /u "%programfiles%\Adobe\Acrobat 8.0\Acrobat Elements\ContextMenu.dll"

64bit users:
@echo off
regsvr32 /u "%programfiles(x86)%\Adobe\Acrobat 8.0\Acrobat Elements\ContextMenu64.dll"
regsvr32 /u "%programfiles(x86)%\Adobe\Acrobat 8.0\Acrobat Elements\ContextMenu.dll"

REM @echo off
regsvr32 /u "%programfiles(x86)%\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0\Acrobat Elements\ContextMenu64.dll"

This worked in Win7 - Naveen

Copy and paste that into a .bat or .cmd file and run it. You can also run the commands manually via start->run or at the command line (cmd.exe).

I used to have a neat program that displayed all currently registered dlls that hooked explorer.exe. Maybe I'll hunt it down and post about it. It's a great tool to have in your windows admin arsenal.

edit: The ShellExView utility displays the details of shell extensions installed on your computer, and allows you to easily disable and enable each shell extension.