DotNetDoc - Daniel Egan

I have had a heck of a problem with Adobe on my system and it was driving me crazy. It would work as a stand-alone program, but whenever I tried to open up a PDF file through IE, it would lock up first IE and then Regular Explorer.  So you would think I could just uninstall and re-install right???

Well you would be wrong. First, when I tried to uninstall, it told me that I was missing a patch file and would have to abort......Great....just what I wanted....

So I found this tool from MS that allows you to remove items that were installed using Windows Installer

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=290301

It seems pretty straight forward, Click on the program and select Remove.

That went pretty smooth. But then when trying to re-install Adobe Acrobat version 8 (The current version), I could not get the Adobe downloader to work.

What a pain !!!!!!!!!!!

Well, to make a long story short.... I am sure there is a work-around to this.... but I instead found a stand-alone installer at this link.

http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/7x/7.0.8/enu/AdbeRdr708_en_US.exe

It is only 7.0.8, but at least my system doesnt crash now :).   Maybe when I have time I will troubleshoot this more.

Happy (or not so happy) programing.

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