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Article #6652Re: cannot uninstall earlier version
From: Nicks&Becks
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:51
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:51
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this is for everyone ist a clean up utility from microsoft <http://tinyurl.com/2wo2wf> Warning: The Microsoft Windows Installer Clean Up utility only removes registry entries created by the application installer. Files and other registry entries for the application are not removed by this utility and could cause inadvertent effects on the system if not removed. If you use this utility, you may have to reinstall other programs that use MSI (Microsoft installer). Caution is advised. Read information about the utility on the Microsoft website at <http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290301> . 1. Download and install the Windows Install Clean Up utility. a. Visit the Microsoft website at <http://support.microsoft.com> and search for msicuu2.exe. b. Select the article "You receive the �This patch package could not be opened� error message in an Office program." c. Click the link for the msicuu2.exe utility under Resolution Step 1. d. Save the utility to your desktop. e. Double-click msicuu2.exe and follow the onscreen instructions. f. click on start, all programs and look for windows install clean up g. click on it, a box pops up with the list of softwares installed on the machine 2. Identify the old version of Acrobat or Adobe Reader that is causing the issue and correctly remove it from the system by clicking on the remove at the bottom.
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X-Google-Thread: 10273d,1aa535c923ac404f X-Google-Attributes: gid10273d,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII From: Nicks&Becks@adobeforums.com Newsgroups: adobe.reader Subject: Re: cannot uninstall earlier version Message-ID: <3c0633bc.39@webcrossing.la2eafNXanI> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:51:17 -0700 References: <3c0633bc.-1@webcrossing.la2eafNXanI> Lines: 37 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!feeder.news-service.com!eweka.nl!hq-usenetpeers.eweka.nl!news4us.nl!webcrossing