Adobe Reader DC Black Cursor Instead of Mouse Pointer (Solved)

Here’s just a quick tip for something that happened to me yesterday.
For some strange reason, Adobe Reader DC started to show up a black square instead of a mouse pointer when over blank areas in a PDF document.

To solve this…errr…strange behavior do the following:

1. Close Adobe Reader DC
   
   
2. Navigate to:
   C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Adobe\Acrobat\DC
   
   
3. Locate and delete a file named:
   IconCachesomething.dat
   
   

Now open Adobe Reader DC and your mouse point is back!

Tips&Tricks – Adobe Reader DC – Disabling Automatic Updates

Here’s a quick tip to completely disable Adobe Reader DC automatic updates.
On this examples, we’ll use a registry configuration for Windows x64 machines:

First things first. There are 3 ways to disable automatic updates. You can choose one of them but…I use all 2 just because we never know if Adobe changes they’re mind about it and one of the ways stops working on next Adobe Reader DC release:

bUpdater	Disables the Updater and removes associated user interface items
Check	Specifies the default time interval in days to check for updates.
Mode	Specifies the Updater’s update mode (manual | automatic)

Now, for the registry keys (that you can apply using Group Policy Preferences for example) here’s what you need:

bUpdater

Path
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\FeatureLockDown\

Value Name
bUpdater

Value Type and Data
REG_DWORD = 0

Mode

Path
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Adobe\Adobe ARM\Legacy\Reader\{AC76BA86-7AD7-1033-7B44-AC0F074E4100}

Value Name
Mode

Value Type and Data
REG_DWORD = 0

Tips&Tricks – Extracting MSI from Adobe Acrobat Reader DC

It’s been a while since Adobe stopped to distributing directly the msi files to install Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, but there’s a really easy way to extract it from the exe file.

Here’s a command-line example for the latest version 18.009.20044:

1. Download the *.exe as usual from the Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Distribution website
2. Now open an elevated command-prompt and navigate to where o saved the download file
3. Run the following command-line: AcroRdrDC1800920044_en_US.exe –sfx_o”C:\Temp\Adobe” –sfx_ne

(“C:\Temp\Adobe” should be replace for your preferred location)

And you’re done.

Tips&Tricks – Adobe Software – New Releases RSS Feeds

You’re a SysAdmin and need a way to always be up-to-date with new releases of Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash Player?

Just subscribe to this 2 RSS feeds:

Adobe Reader Releases

Adobe Flash Player Releases