Remove Add Document Information in PDF Printer

We are using Adobe Acrobat Standard X. We used the Adobe Customization Wizard to create a custom setup to use for the rollout. One of the setting we changed was the “Add Document Information” setting in the Adobe PDF printer setting. We do not want metadata to be included in the file. This has worked great for over a year. When we installed the Adobe update 10.1.8 is was changed by the update to add the information back into the file. We are looking for a way to change the setting back on several hundred PCs without having to visit each one and uncheck the box in the printer setting. A registry setting would be great.

I have removed Adobe X on a several test machines. I reinstalled using our custom setup with the "Add Document Information" unselected. I can install update 10.1.9 with no problem. If I do the custom install and then install the 10.1.8 update I get mixed results with some machines turning the "Add Document Information" back on.
Any ideas to turn this off would be helpful. Uninstalling and reinstalling is not a solution due to the number of computers.

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I see it is changing the following when I uncheck the box that says add document information, but I can not get it to uncheck the box if I do these registry changes. The ChangeID number also changes to some random number everytime I modify something under that Adobe PDF Printer:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Printers\Adobe PDF\ChangeID=8231360
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Printers\Adobe PDF\PrinterDriverData\AddDocInfo=0
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Add Document Information

Hi,
we have Adobe PDF Printer from Acrobat XI Pro.
In settings from Printer Driver the function "Add document information" isn't set and we can convert Microsoft Word/Excel Documents in PDF w/o any Info. But many times after Update of Acrobat Reader Pro was reset of all settings to default. Where are this settings in Register saved??
However if we try to convert Word/Excel Dokument from right-click menu, will tittel, autor and other infos transfered to PDF document. How can we avoid this??!
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I have removed Adobe X on a several test machines. I reinstalled using our custom setup with the "Add Document Information" unselected. I can install update 10.1.9 with no problem. If I do the custom install and then install the 10.1.8 update I get mixed results with some machines turning the "Add Document Information" back on.
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