Protected View Reader XI

Hi everybody,
I need your help .
I'm trying to enforce the Protected View in Reader, but there is always the Yellow Message Bar on the top of the document, which lets users "Enable all Features".
Do you know how to let this Message Bar disappear?
The End-User should not be able to add this file to his/her "Trusted Files".
If a user clicks on "Enable all Features" the current document becomes a "Trusted File" and Registry Keys in the "Current User Hive" are created.
If those Registry Keys are present, the current document is trusted all the time for this user, and it is opened outside the sandbox.
I followed descriptions on numerous sites to find all the Registry Keys, and I also used ProcMon to identify them.
This is my current registry configuration:
I also tried to associate the .pdf extension with "Microsoft Internet Explorer", which causes the start of the Reader Process inside the IE.
I tried this because, with my current config I am unable to follow embedded links in the standalone process.
After opening files via IE the "Enable All Features" button was replaced with another one named "Options".
When clicking on "Options" I get the following two options to choose from:
Trust this host one time only
Trust this host always (same as "Enable All Features")
And now I don't know what to do next to make this Message Bar dissapear.
The perfect solution would be to let the Message Bar dessapear in both, the standalone process and the "embedded browser process".
I would be very happy, if anybody can point me into the right direction.
Thanks in advance.
Regards
Sternze

Hi,
unfortunately this is just partially true.
I already found this docs, thanks.
I already set this values, as you may see in the Screenshot above.
As you correctly said the Yellow Message Bar occours, but when the user clicks on "Enable All Features" the pdf is reloaded outside the sandbox.
I know it sounds ridiculous, but when you open the Registry and head for the following key:
[HKCU\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\11.0\TrustManager\cTrustedFolders]
(Subkeys are created in this Key whenever a File is trusted.)
When I click on "Enable All Features" with the Values you metioned enabled, the file is trusted and reloaded outside the sandbox.
Because the sub-keys in the "cTrustedFolders"-Key are created.
Additionally, when you open a pdf in Protected View and try to show the "Document Properties" via right click you just see one Tab with the "Description".
After clicking on "Enable All Features" with the above configuration, I am able to see all Tabs (not in PV anymore).
That were my indicators.
The version this was tested with: 11.0
Hopefully there is a solution.
Regards
Sternze

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