Avoid autostart of pdf24

[oso]

how can i avoid the auto start of pdf24 at the starting up of the computer?
Thanks to all!
OSO

Answer could be in german or english!

[pdf24]

Currently this can't be deactivated. If you manually stop the background process than PDF creation will not work. The background process is a required component to create PDF files via the PDF24 PDF printer.

[lagganmhouillin]

That's not true. Of course can it be deactivated, but you have to do this manually in the registry at your own risk. If needed the service can be started manually by executing pdf24.exe.

Start regedit under a user with admin rights. For a backup export the whole registry.

The key can be found under

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Wow6432Node/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run]
"PDFPrint"="E:\Application\PDF24\pdf24.exe"

Remove this value and the service will not be started the next time you boot your computer. The key can be reimported by creating a reg file (e.g. pdf24.reg) with the following content:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Wow6432Node/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run]
"PDFPrint"="E:\Application\PDF24\pdf24.exe"

and importing this file.

@pdf24: Why don't you guys tell that the users of your software? Most of the people here have enough knowledge to perform this simple action!

[pdf24]

Of curse, if you remove the autostart entry then the background process will not be started at the next restart, but if you do that then you your PDF printer will no longer work.

Sometimes we get mails from users who say that the PDF printer does not work and a lot of that users have deactivated the pdf24.exe.

[Stefan Ziegler]

If a current version is installed, then you can disable the autostart. How to do that is described here:

https://creator.pdf24.org/manual/11/#122-how-to-stopremove-the-pdf24-autostart-entry

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