Disabling Adobe Reader Addons in IE8 through javascript

Hi,
I have a scenario.
I want to disable/enable Adobe reader addons in IE 8 based on certain condition in my website through javascript.
Is it possible to enable/disable addons in IE8 through javascript, or through any means without doing it manually?
Please let me know if any more details is required.
Thanks
Previn S

If you do not want to enable \disable add-ons manually, you can do it via registry, get the class ID for this add-on from Tools\Manage add-ons, right click this add-on, click "more information", then open registry editor, locate to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Settings],
find the class ID, “Flags”=dword:00000001, 0 is for enable and 1 is for disable.
I haven't heard about changing add-ons settings via javascript, please let us know if you want more information.
Yolanda Zhu
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