Enabling/Disabling PDF in Browser Option (Acrobat XI)

Firstly, know that yes I understand that this setting is no longer found in and handled by Acrobat XI and that to enable or disable PDF in browser setting you enable/disable the add-on in IE (or other browser).
In the hopes of making it more straightforward and convenient for users to toggle this setting, one option is being explored to create a custom Javascript action in Acrobat to write to the user registry to turn this on/off.
Is this feasible? Can Acrobat JavaScript actions read and write to the user's registry? As we have a collection of users that need to regularly toggle this setting (for reasons I won't go into here), it would be ideal to have an easy and straightforward means to change this setting. One possibility might be a custom Acrobat JavaScript action.
Thoughts, suggestions, ideas?
Thank you

Thank you. Forgive me but I want to make absolutely certain...in no way can a custom Acrobat JavaScript action change the user's registry. Is this correct? A pointer to official documentation stating such would be excellent. I have to convince someone not easily convinced

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