{"id":1124,"date":"2013-12-03T02:45:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T02:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2015-08-25T22:22:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T22:22:10","slug":"nitro-pdf-group-policy-registry-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/random\/nitro-pdf-group-policy-registry-settings","title":{"rendered":"Nitro PDF Group Policy Registry Settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1126 img-responsive\" src=\"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/nitrp.png\" alt=\"nitrp\" width=\"134\" height=\"75\" \/>I wanted to disable the &#8220;Tell me if Nitro Pro is not the default viewer&#8221; option on startup for each user via group policy. We can set this using Nitro custom MST creator with deploymentutility9_en.exe , however this works as below<\/p><p><strong>Installation (Admin)<\/strong><\/p><p>1. On installation we write a large number of preferences to \\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Nitro\\Pro\\9.0\\settings\\<\/p><p><strong>First Launch (User)<\/strong><\/p><p>2. On a users first run we copy the local machine keys to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\SOFTWARE\\Nitro\\Pro\\9.0<\/p><p>3. We then load on startup these keys to memory for use during the operation of Nitro Pro 9<\/p><p>4. When the application is closed, any changes are written back to HKEY_CURRENT_USER so they can be accessed on the next launch<\/p><p>So once it set once the user can change this, I added the following update registry key to set this every time the user logs in to make 100% the user does not click yes!<\/p><p>Path1 : HKCU\/ \\Software\\Nitro\\Pro\\9.0\\settings\\kPreferances<\/p><p>Key : kPrefGeneralMsgIfNotDefaultPDFViewer<\/p><p>Type : String<\/p><p>Value : \/b 0 &#8211; where 1 is Yes and No is 0<\/p><h2 style=\"line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 11.25pt 0cm 11.25pt 0cm;\"><strong>Uncheck Prompt for FileName for all users<\/strong><\/h2><p style=\"line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 11.25pt 0cm 11.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','sans-serif'; color: #2b2e2f;\">I have managed to isolate what drives the configuration for these panels. <\/span><\/p><p style=\"line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 11.25pt 0cm 11.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','sans-serif'; color: #2b2e2f;\">Screencast : <a href=\"http:\/\/screencast.com\/t\/vivqspya9Y\">http:\/\/screencast.com\/t\/vivqspya9Y<\/a><br \/> Sample Files : <a href=\"https:\/\/nitropdf.box.com\/s\/iy09jagvwswi2452ccy1\">https:\/\/nitropdf.box.com\/s\/iy09jagvwswi2452ccy1<\/a><br \/> Location : %temp%<br \/> Word Filename: NitroMSWordAddinPro9.ini<br \/> Excel Filename: NitroMSExcelAddinPro9.ini<br \/> PowerPoint Filename: NitroMSPowerPointAddinPro9.ini<\/span><\/p><h2 style=\"line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 11.25pt 0cm 11.25pt 0cm;\">Change Word Format Nitro Converts from PDF to Doc<\/h2><p style=\"line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 11.25pt 0cm 11.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','sans-serif'; color: #2b2e2f;\"><strong>Word Format<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','sans-serif'; color: #2b2e2f;\"> &#8211; To configure in the Word Convert format you can specify the following HKLM (install) and then after first run HKCU defined key.<br \/><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','sans-serif';\">Location<\/span><\/strong> : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Nitro\\Pro\\9.0\\Settings\\Preferences\\kPreferences<br \/><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','sans-serif';\">Name<\/span><\/strong> : kPrefConvertPDFToWordFormat <br \/><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','sans-serif';\">Type<\/span><\/strong> : String<br \/><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','sans-serif';\">Value<\/span><\/strong> : \/i 0 | \/i 1 (0 = DOCX, 1 = DOC)<\/span> <\/span><\/p><h2 style=\"line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 11.25pt 0cm 11.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','sans-serif'; color: #2b2e2f;\">Combine<\/span><\/h2><p style=\"line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 11.25pt 0cm 11.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','sans-serif'; color: #2b2e2f;\">This area hasn&#8217;t been configured to be completely silent in the same regards as above. The output will always be indexed &#8216;Untitled.pdf&#8217;, however you can configure the output location in the registry through the following registry key. This will mean that the creation occurs immediately however the name will not be pre-configured for you at this stage. To take advantage of this you will need to configure the registry keys manually shown here <\/span><\/p><p style=\"line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 11.25pt 0cm 11.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','sans-serif'; color: #2b2e2f;\">\u00a0located under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Nitro\\Pro\\9.0\\Settings\\Preferences\\kCombinePDF.<\/span><\/p><h2 style=\"line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 11.25pt 0cm 11.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','sans-serif'; color: #2b2e2f;\">Creation Quality <\/span><\/h2><p style=\"line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 11.25pt 0cm 11.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','sans-serif'; color: #2b2e2f;\">You will need to swap out some values for the higher quality option, these are: <\/span><\/p><p style=\"line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 11.25pt 0cm 11.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','sans-serif'; color: #2b2e2f;\">DownHKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Nitro\\Pro\\9.0\\Settings\\Preferences\\kCombinePDFloadSample Keys = 300 <\/span><\/p><p style=\"line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 11.25pt 0cm 11.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','sans-serif'; color: #2b2e2f;\">Quality Keys = 100 <\/span><\/p><p style=\"line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 11.25pt 0cm 11.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','sans-serif'; color: #2b2e2f;\">Compression = 3 <\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to disable the &#8220;Tell me if Nitro Pro is not the default viewer&#8221; option on startup for each user via group policy. 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