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AADC-CN-001310 - The Adobe Acrobat Pro DC Continuous Welcome Screen must be disabled.

Information

The Adobe Welcome screen can be distracting. It provides marketing material and also has online links to the Adobe quick tips website, tutorials, blogs, and community forums. When the Adobe Welcome screen is disabled, the Welcome screen will not be populated on application startup.

Solution

Configure the following registry value:

Note: The Key Name 'cWelcomeScreen' is not created by default in the Acrobat Pro DC install and must be created.

Registry Hive:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry Path:
\Software\Policies\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\FeatureLockDown\cWelcomeScreen

Value Name: bShowWelcomeScreen
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 0

Configure the policy value for Computer Configuration > Administrative Template > Adobe Acrobat Pro DC Continuous > Preferences > 'Welcome Screen' to 'Disabled'.

This policy setting requires the installation of the AcrobatProDCContinuous custom templates included with the STIG package. 'AcrobatProDCContinuous.admx' and 'AcrobatProDCContinuous.adml' must be copied to the \Windows\PolicyDefinitions and \Windows\PolicyDefinitions\en-US directories respectively.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Adobe_Acrobat_Pro_DC_Continuous_V1R2_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-7, CAT|III, CCI|CCI-000381, Rule-ID|SV-94103r1_rule, STIG-ID|AADC-CN-001310, Vuln-ID|V-79397

Plugin: Windows

Control ID: 3dcb1cd2e6c394a14b37af47443742530438a1a60b1087b672d377822384c43f