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In Outlook 2007, it seems Adobe PDFMaker is causing quite a lot trouble and frustration. It seems a lot of people don’t use this PDFMOutlook plugin. In fact, I didn’t even know the PDFMaker toolbar existed in Outlook 2007.

Because of this, I decided to remove the PDFMOutlook toolbar completely. You can do this in three ways:

1. Uninstall Adobe Acrobat
2. Delete PDFMOutlook.dll
   • It’s located in “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat 7.0\PDFMaker\Mail\Outlook” (change the 7.0 into your own version)
3. Unregister PDFMOutlook.dll ->
   • Open your run box by hitting Start -> Run
   • Enter the following string:
     regsvr32 /u “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat 7.0\PDFMaker\Mail\Outlook\PDFMOutlook.dll” (change the 7.0 into your own version)
   • You’ll get a prompt that tells you you’ve unregistered the file. If this prompt says that the file cannot be found, then double-check the directory you typed in.

It seems clear to me that the last option wins the gold medaille in this case…

If you ever need to make a PDF inside Outlook again, then just repeat the process. but leave the /u out of the line. So, in above’s case, to re-register the file, It would look something like:

regsvr32 “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat 7.0\PDFMaker\Mail\Outlook\PDFMOutlook.dll”