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I’m not exactly sure how or when it started happening, but whenever I would try to save a document as an Acrobat PDF document (or try to print to the Acrobat PDF printer), it would create the PDF document fine but leave me with errors in the printer queue that said it had failed to print. Deleting these entries would get rid of the errors and the printer icon from your system tray – a minor hassle.

I didn’t bother to deal with it for a while since I could just cancel the errored out jobs in my printer queue and not worry about it since the PDF would still be created, however I figured I would finally figure out the problem and try to fix it. Of course, searching on Adobe’s website turned up nothing of relevance, and a few websites I found just said to re-install the Adobe Acrobat PDF printer which was what I figured I should do anyways, so I did.
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If you have the Java Runtime Environment installed on your Windows (Vista) system – and chances are you do – you may have tried disabling that Java system tray icon without much luck.  The problem lies in registry permissions, and the solution lies right here!

As the Administrator user in Windows, you can easily go in to the Java control panel and disable the “Place Java icon in system tray” setting and it will stick (meaning the setting actually gets saved in the registry).  Problem is though, the setting seems to be per-user, so you’ve only disabled it for your Administrator account – not much use for your normal user account(s) in Windows now is it.
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