Acrobat 8 : Hand tool by default using AxInterop.AcroPDFLib???

HI,
I've made a search in the forum, but nothing found corresponding to my problem...
I have made a win application using AxInterop.AcroPDFLib and Interop.AcroPDFLib to display pdf file on the screen.
This application runs on computers in a factory, and thoose computers does have a touch screen (thus, no keyboard and no mouse).
The pdf reader has been configured tu use hand tool instead of selection tool , in order to enable users to scroll the pdf when touching the screen and dragging the pdf file up and down.
BUT, sometimes, the pdf system (dll? reader?) seems to reset default value and thus, default behavior becomes selection tools instead of hand tools. This is a big issues for us, because someone needs to go to that computer with a mouse to set back the behavior to hand tool (big time lost)
Is there a way to "set" the behavior back to "hand tool" programmatically? or by using registry (i suppose values are stored somewhere).
Thanks
Mike
Mike

On the toolbar, go to:
Edit - Preferences - General
Uncheck the box:
"Enable text selection for the Hand tool"
---Imran

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