I have been trying for some time to get my installations of PDFCreator 2.0.2 and 2.1.1 to automatically set the updateinterval to never, and have succeeded with that by doing the following during installation:
Create a string key under “HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\SOFTWARE\PDFCreator.net\Settings\ApplicationSettings” with the name UpdateInterval and value 0.
This then gets used as the default during installation.
However, if a user then changes the value manually, the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PDFCreator.net\Settings\ApplicationSettings gets changed to the value they set, for example Monthly.
We were hoping that we could correct this by changing the value of that key to Never by using a GPO, but it doesn’t seem to work, even if I set that value manually in the registry, it doesn’t actually change the value in PDFCreator, that still remains monthly, and as soon as I open PDFCreator, it resets the value in the registry key to the value from PDFCreator application. Is there any way to enforce this, and even better, to make sure users can’t change this value from within PDFCreator?
Noone knows?
Hi,
I was not quite able to reproduce this here, my observations:
It seems to be case sensitive and will only work if set while the user is not running the PDFCreator.
Can you confirm this?
I will also ask our one of our developers to have a look at it.
best regards,
Yes, I can confirm that it seems to work if the application is shut down before changing the registry value.
Any way to disable the ability for the users to change the value?
Hi,
I am afraid this is not (yet) possible, but have already planned to integrate this option , so it will hopefully be availble in the future.
best regards,
Ok, thanks for your answers 