Adobe Acrobat 7 serial auto-complete

We are installing Adobe Acrobat 7.0 for several teachers in the school system. As anyone who has installed an Adobe product can attest, the serial number is quite long. Typing in that number slows your install process (just a little). Here is how you can have the setup process automatically fill in the serial number for you.

  1. Copy the contents of the Adobe Acrobat 7.0 CD to a folder on your computer.
  2. Change the Read Only attribute of the setup.ini file to Read-Write.
  3. Under [Startup], next to CmdLine=, add the following:
    • Substitute your serial number for the X’s

    ISX_SERIALNUMBER=XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX

  4. Save the setup.ini file.
  5. Copy all the files to a CD, or a network share from which you can install the software.

You can now fly through the installation without having to input the serial number. I have read that this works for other Adobe products but I haven’t tested it on anything but Acrobat 7.0 Standard.

For even more options on customizing Adobe Acrobat installations, check out the Installsheild Tuner. Adobe provides it for Adobe Acrobat/Reader 6.0 & 7.0. This tool allows you to customize many aspects of an Acrobat/Reader installation.

No man is free who is not master of himself. -Epictetus

23.Aug.05 Tech Tip

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5 Responses to “Adobe Acrobat 7 serial auto-complete”

  1. bobo | August 26th, 2005 at 10:17 am

    I should have came here first. I saw this post the day after we had upgraded about 70 computers at my work to 7.0

  2. Anonymous | January 29th, 2006 at 10:48 am

    what is the serial number of the adobe acrobat 7.0 ?

  3. wyckedone | January 29th, 2006 at 1:06 pm

    That you should have on the CD sleeve.

  4. ko | August 20th, 2007 at 9:29 am

    i need serial number of the adobe acrobat 7.0.

  5. baloo | September 26th, 2007 at 11:42 am

    Okay I have a valid copy of adobe acrobat 6.0 professional. But I need to know when you install the program where exactly does Windows put the file that says this is your serial number??? Thanks!

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