I recently needed to audit the version of adobe flash on the machines a script was running. This code was originally written for visual studio but translates well to powershell.

to retrieve the version of adobe flash on the local machine, use get-adobeflashversion. The code for the get-adobeflashversion can be found below:

[sourcecode language=”Powershell”]
function get-adobeflashversion{
try{
$flashobject = new-object -ComObject "shockwaveflash.shockwaveflash"
$version=(($flashobject.getvariable("`$version")).replace(",",".")).trimstart("WIN ")
}
Catch{
write-warning "Could not create Com Object, are you sure Adobe Flash is installed?"
}
return $version
}
[/sourcecode]

when right clicking  on an office document Adobe decided  “Combine supported files in acrobat” to be we all must have, fine in the wild… but not so good in a shared desktop environment.

To remove this from your Citrix environment / Desktop simply run this command:

REGSVR32 /u "C:Program FilesAdobeAcrobat 9.0Acrobat ElementsContextMenu.dll.

If you also wish to remove the New > file type associations that Adobe decide to push in, heres a script to do so:

REG DELETE HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.xdpAcroExch.XDPDocShellNew /f
 REG DELETE HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.xdpShellNew /f

Update:

With the move to 64 bit platforms, a new dll has been put in place:

C:Program Files (x86)AdobeAcrobat 9.0Acrobat Elementscontextmenu64.dll

This dll add’s the following items to the context menu:

• Convert to Adobe PDF
• Convert to Adobe PDF and Email.

If you wish to remove these, run the following command:

REGSVR32 /u "C:Program Files (x86)AdobeAcrobat 9.0Acrobat ElementsContextMenu64.dll"