Combine PDFs: Still cant right click and bring up "Combine PDFs" option

[Guest]

The option to combine PDFs by right clicking on the files does not appear on my machine.  I've read the fourms and tried the following:

1. All adobe products updated

2. uninstalled/reinstalled Acrobat Pro

3. repaired installation of Acrobat Pro

3. followed another forums suggestion of running: regsvr32 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 10.0\Acrobat Elements\ContextMenu64.dll". problem persisted. I got error message 0x80070005.

I have 100s of PDFs to combine! Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

(Win7, x64).

[Bernd Alheit]

In Adobe Acrobat choose File > Create > Combine Files Into A Single PDF.

[Guest]

thanks - yes the workaround is: In Adobe Acrobat File > Create > Combine.  But... right clicking on the file is soooo much faster and convieenent.  Every day for years I was able to simply right click to combine. When I switched to a new computer and upgraded Acrobat Pro I lost the beloved functionality of right click/combine. 

[Bernd Alheit]

How many files did you select in Windows Explorer?

[Guest]

I just tried selecting one, two, three, four and five PDF files.  same thing - the option to combine just does not show up on right click

[Sandeep_V_]

Do you have this registry key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Adobe.Acrobat.ContextMenu with DWORD value: {D25B2CAB-8A9A-4517-A9B2-CB5F68A5A802}

If not then create it manually.

[Guest]

thanks.  I have the folder, but I'm blocked from opening it.  see attached screen shot

[Sandeep_V_ · Accepted solution]

Please set permission on this registry key following step '1. (Advanced) Set permissions to their defaults in the registry' in this article: http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/error-1402-error-1406-acrobat.html

This article is not for this issue. It just contains a step to set permissions on the registry keys.

[Guest]

a solution!  followed all steps in the link above (to reset permissions on registry keys) and the right-click-context-menu to combine PDFs appeared, and works.

thank you so much!

[Guest]

any idea why I have to go through this procedure almost monthly?  The issue keeps reoccurring.

thanks

[Phillip_M_Jones]

Registry Keys are costantly being written to all the time therefore  are the most eaily corruptible files on Windows machines.

[TinCanFury]

I have a similarly related issue, the space where it used to say "Combine..." in the context menu is now blank (ie it's there but there is no text), and if I click on it, nothing happens...

[LawrenceFisher]

I have this in my registry but the "Combine files...." does not appear in my context menu

[pranavj]

Hi Lawrence,

If this registry already available, please try the below mentioned steps and let me know if that works

• Click Start, choose 'All Programs' > 'Accessories, and *right-click* on 'Command Prompt and 'Select 'Run as Administrator'
• If you have 64-bit Windows, in the command window type the following and press Enter, including the quotes:

         regsvr32 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 10.0\Acrobat Elements\ContextMenu64.dll"

Regards,

~Pranav

[q0n0p]

I solved the problem after ununstall Google Drive. It seems to be a conflict with the contextmenu handler. See the attached pic from the uninstall report.

[GoUSS]

I can confirm that by disabling the Google Drive context menu setting (I used CCleaner) on a Windows 7 64 bit install of CS3 the problem is partially resolved. Unfortunately it no longer combines JPG, TIF, or anything I have tested except PDF files. I suppose that is the best I can hope for considering what I have read here. If anyone has a more complete solution please post. Thanks

[steve p]

I uninstalled Google Drive also, which brought back the "Combine" menu item in the right-click/context menu.

Didn't try the registry fix after others said the problem re-occurs with that fix.

Running Windows 8.1, latest updates.  Not sure when this problem first started on this machine.

[Robywan20003]

Thanks,

That works. However the "Convert to PDF" and "Combine pdfs.." is a blank line in the context menu.  The buttons work, just don't show the text of the button.

[eteppaw]

After looking for ages for a solution a combination of responses here sorted out my problem.

If I tried to run regsvr32 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 10.0\Acrobat Elements\ContextMenu64.dll"  I got error message 0x80070005

If I looked at the regkey - HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Adobe.Acrobat.ContextMenu with DWORD value: {D25B2CAB-8A9A-4517-A9B2-CB5F68A5A802} I got permission denied

If I tried to edit permissions I was not able to.

So I downloaded the home edition of Registrar Registry Manager  from Resplendence Software - Registrar Registry Manager   - You need to make your own call on using this but I read reviews on CNet and it looked like a good tool

With this registry manager I was able to access the Adobe.Acrobat.ContextMenu key and in my case I decided to delete it and then used the regular registry manager to re-create the key. I let regedit put a random default key in and then went back to to the cmd line and as administrator I ran regsvr32 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 10.0\Acrobat Elements\ContextMenu64.dll"

I went back to regedit and looked at eh key again - I now had a good dword entry - I deleted the random key created in the previous step and then hey presto everything worked correctly - I had the adobe context menu back.

[Jewls88]

Thank You!  I never thought to press the blank spot.  The combine pdf is there you just can't see the text on the list.  When I pressed the blank spot where the combine file to pdf used to be it worked.

[Eduardo Castro]

MacOS: after selecting multiple PDF files, I want to right click and have the option (shortcut) to combine files. Make a tutorial for MacOS

[brandon_mc205]

This resolved my issue but it was difficult to understand what you were intending to say.

Solution

• Launch regedit
• Navigate to  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Adobe.Acrobat.ContextMenu
• Double click the key to edit the parameters
• Replace ALL of the value with {D25B2CAB-8A9A-4517-A9B2-CB5F68A5A802}

[Guest]

Yes, I just installed Google Drive yesterday and my option to combine pdfs in the right-click menu has disappeared.  I have found, though that if you just click the blank space in the right-click menu where "Combine PDFs in Acrobat" used to be, it still works.  Kind of unfortunate but I'd rather keep Google Drive on my machine and just click a blank icon.

[Yusriz]

I also have this problem. After I uninstalled Google Drive, the acrobat context menu items appeared as usual. It seems Google Drive context menu has same name with Acrobat context menu that is "contextmenu64.dll".