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Can't Get Rid of Adobe Reader
A friend of mine has a new Dell E510 with Windows Media Center. He
uses FireFox and installed a plug-in for pdf files. He ran into all kinds of problems with trying to read pdf files. He attempted to install Adobe Reader 7.0, but couldn't because 6.0.1 showed in the add/remove programs list. However, it would not let him remove 6.0.1 without installing some CD that he doesn't have. Anyone had an idea how to get out of this? He has already tried the manual remove procedure from the Adobe site which gave him an error message stating that there is another instance of 7.0 on the computer. He did find three references to 7.0 in the registry. |
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Can't Get Rid of Adobe Reader
"Dick" wrote in message ... A friend of mine has a new Dell E510 with Windows Media Center. He uses FireFox and installed a plug-in for pdf files. He ran into all kinds of problems with trying to read pdf files. He attempted to install Adobe Reader 7.0, but couldn't because 6.0.1 showed in the add/remove programs list. However, it would not let him remove 6.0.1 without installing some CD that he doesn't have. Anyone had an idea how to get out of this? He has already tried the manual remove procedure from the Adobe site which gave him an error message stating that there is another instance of 7.0 on the computer. He did find three references to 7.0 in the registry. System restore back to a date before the 7.0 install. |
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Can't Get Rid of Adobe Reader
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 20:20:08 -0500, "S.Lewis"
wrote: "Dick" wrote in message .. . A friend of mine has a new Dell E510 with Windows Media Center. He uses FireFox and installed a plug-in for pdf files. He ran into all kinds of problems with trying to read pdf files. He attempted to install Adobe Reader 7.0, but couldn't because 6.0.1 showed in the add/remove programs list. However, it would not let him remove 6.0.1 without installing some CD that he doesn't have. Anyone had an idea how to get out of this? He has already tried the manual remove procedure from the Adobe site which gave him an error message stating that there is another instance of 7.0 on the computer. He did find three references to 7.0 in the registry. System restore back to a date before the 7.0 install. This has been going on since he got the computer. To do that, he would have to go back to the original configuration as it came from Dell. Probably not a good option. |
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Can't Get Rid of Adobe Reader
On or about 6/11/2006 10:03 PM, it came to pass that Nicholas Andrade wrote:
Dick wrote: This has been going on since he got the computer. To do that, he would have to go back to the original configuration as it came from Dell. Probably not a good option. Well if you don't mind getting your hands dirty: 1. Start - Run - Regedit [ok] 2. Backup the whole registry 3. Search for every instance of Adobe, Acrobat, PDF and delete them 4. Open explorer and move every instance of Adobe related programs to a backup directory 5. Cross your fingers and try to reinstall Acrobat or Use a better PDF client, I like ghostscript which is Free Software and also works with PostScript files (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/). Acrobat is really poorly designed in my opinion, it's a shame that you can't (well not easily) run kpdf in Windows. However, you can run Foxit Reader (free) http://www.foxitsoftware.com/ You may be able to ignore the installed versions of Adobe because Foxit will ask to become the program associated with PDFs. |
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Can't Get Rid of Adobe Reader
However, you can run Foxit Reader (free)
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/ Thanks for the link - its one I hadn`t heard of before :-) |
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