The Adobe Acrobat Pro DC Continuous Welcome Screen must be disabled.

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.

Verify the following registry configuration:

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

Using the Registry Editor, navigate to the following: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\FeatureLockDown\cWelcomeScreen

Value Name: bShowWelcomeScreen Type: REG_DWORD Value: 0

If the value for bShowWelcomeScreen is not set to “0” and Type is not configured to REG_DWORD or does not exist, this is a finding.

Admin Template path: Computer Configuration > Administrative Template > Adobe Acrobat Pro DC Continuous > Preferences > 'Welcome Screen' must be set to 'Disabled'.

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'.