Wednesday, July 31, 2013

How to handle PDF Creator updates with terminal services

The current PDF Creator version (1.7.1) is already a good solution for being used under terminal services like Windows or Citrix

There's only one disturbing thing:The standard setting for an update check appears weekly for every user (!!!). 


Setting under  'Options'
But here you can only change this setting for the current user. That's not ideal for a terminal server.







So how can I change this for every user at this server?

In the registry HKCU/Software/PDFCreator/Program you have the following entry:

The value '2' means 'weekly'. If you change it to '0', it will be changed to 'never'.


If you want this for every user you simply have to set this entry in 
HKUsers/DEFAULT /Software/PDFCreator/Program 
at every terminal server PDF Creator is used.


Problem solved.