Reader 10.1 Update 2 Duplex Printing

After upgrading our machines to 10.1.2 I see that duplex printing is enabled by default. This caused some confusion in our office.  Here are 2 ways to fix this:
When printing, uncheck "print on both sides"
If you want to use an automated tool (for corporate roll out) change/create this registry key:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\10.0\AVGeneral]
"iDuplexMode"=dword:00000001
1 = no duplex
0 (or key does not exist) = duplex
Hopefully this helps someone else.
-Joel
Message was edited by: joelb_mfab
Corrected key name to iDuplexMode (originally I incorrectly posted iprintBookletDuplexMode)

Thanks for the post.

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