Adobe Acrobat

This information is probably obsolete for Acrobat 5.0. 

This suite of programs has some annoying quirks.

Never touch the "open" action for .ps files, corresponding to Distiller, in Folder Options/File Types.  When you edit it, it always gets a "%1" appended and then double-clicking a .ps file doesn't work properly.

It seems only possible to get rid of this in the registry.  Here are the contents of the appropriate key (I keep this as a plain text file acrodist.reg (use Windows notepad to make sure it has DOS line-ends) that can be merged when needed).  Note this also contains KEDIT and Ghostview actions for the context menu.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AcroDist]
"EditFlags"=dword:00000000
"BrowserFlags"=dword:00000008
@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AcroDist\shell]
@="Open"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AcroDist\shell\GSView]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AcroDist\shell\GSView\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Ghostgum\\gsview\\gsview32.exe\" \"%1\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AcroDist\shell\Kedit]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AcroDist\shell\Kedit\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\KEDITW\\KEDITW32.EXE\" %1"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AcroDist\shell\Open]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AcroDist\shell\Open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Acrobat 4.0\\Distillr\\Acrodist.exe\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AcroDist\shell\Open\ddeexec]
@="[open(\"%1\")]"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AcroDist\shell\Open\ddeexec\Application]
@="acrodist"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AcroDist\shell\Open\ddeexec\Topic]
@="control"