Acrobat Reader: How to disable “Adobe ID” prompt
Posted by on November 13, 2014
For many years I’m using Adobe Acrobat Reader to read PDF documents. Recently I started getting an annoying popup prompt for my Adobe ID while opening PDFs. I don’t have one and don’t plan to get one – it is just useless to me at this point.
[ Disclaimer: This worked for me with Adobe Acrobat Reader 11. Now I’m using Reader DC, but I’ve never got Adobe ID login prompt here and I don’t know why. ]
Here is the way to get rid of this prompt:
- Open Registry Editor (and be extra careful there!)
- Go to “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\11.0\Workflows” (if you don’t have “Workflows” key, just create one)
- Create new “DWORD (32-bit)” Value with name “bEnableAcrobatHS” and value “0”
That’s all – short and simple!
Chris said
Thank you so much for this excellent solution!!!
Jack said
Thank you so much! have a nice day!!!
Tris said
Will this work for Acrobat DC?
Anton Khitrenovich said
Maybe. Feel free to check and update here.
Havoc said
Didnt work for DC
Abubakr said
Thanks for the solution … Works perfectly for Adobe Acrobat DC … No more annoying pop-up for Sign-Ins.
just find the correct folder in “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\Workflows in “regedit.exe”
Works like a Charm …
Thanks once again for the solution
prateek said
how to solve this problem with Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. Please help
Anton Khitrenovich said
No idea, never used DC. But people in the comments claim they have the solution.
Bryan said
I just tried this with Acrobat DC Standard. It did not work, I still get the prompt to sign in in order to activate/run the program.
Anton Khitrenovich said
Did you try the registry key for Acrobar Reader that I posted or the key for Acrobat DC from the comments above?
Josh said
Getting nowhere with this. There is no “Acrobat DC” key under Adobe – there is 11.0, and 2015, I added the DWORD value in both locations but still get the same prompt.
Anton Khitrenovich said
Maybe try to create “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\Workflows” and add DWORD value there? (As I said, just guessing…)
randomGuy said
thx,it really works!
jigger said
Thank you so much that help a lot
Mike said
Has anyone tried adding this in a way that will affect all Terminal Server users?
dima from israel said
Great solution!
thank you so much for solving this annoying issue for me!
much appriciated
Toni said
Yes that fixed it. Just have to follow the correct path. Worked. After 2 years. haha.. Thanks