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Article #212Re: Problem solved -Adobe gone!!
From: Big John
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:28
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:28
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Big John wrote: > I have been plagued with problems with Adobe Reader for the past 6 > months! Couldn't get it to work and couldn't get it off my computer! It > wouldn't open and wouldn't let me open documents with Foxit. I was > essentially out of the PDF business!! > > Got all kinds of advice - mostly poor - and last evening while reading > through one of the Adobe forums, I found the answer!! Downloaded > "Windows Install Cleanup Utility" from > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301-ran it, identified Adobe to be > removed, and it was gone!! Every crumb!! I then downloaded Adobe Reader > 9.0 and was off and running!! I was warned that the first attempt to > install it might not work, but to get out, and re-boot and try again. I > had to do that. It took a while, and a couple of times I thought it had > frozen, but I waited it out and it finally it finished. Now it's > working as if nothing had ever happened. My thanks to the person who > gave me the hint --no thanks to Adobe--they weren't any help at all!! > > Now I can shut Adobe down and use Foxit, which was my goal in the first > place!! > > bj The Microsoft Support address above will not work - somehow it got "ran" into it!! The correct address is" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301 bj
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