Guest Larry Posted June 28, 2008 Posted June 28, 2008 Sorry for asking an XP question here, but I couldn't find a newsgroup on XP. I have a five year old Dell laptop with Windows XP that someone gave me recently. Half the time, whenever you click or right-click on anything, a dialog appears saying, "configuring [or installing] Adobe 8.1." This dialog box just hangs, and you have to click it several times to get rid of it. I went to Add/Remove programs dialog box, and guess what? It's empty, none of the programs on the computer are showing at all. I went to the Adobe folder in the Program Files folder, thinking of simply deleting all the Adobe fiiles. There are two folders in it, one for version 7, and one for version 8, but when I try to delete, I get message saying I can't do this with certain files which are being used or something. (Sorry I'm not quoting it exactly.) So: this dialog box keeps hanging up the computer, and there seems no way to get rid of Adobe on the computer. And the Add-Remove box is messed up. Any suggestions? Thanks, Larry
Guest PA Bear [MS MVP] Posted June 28, 2008 Posted June 28, 2008 Re: Adobe dialog that won't go away WinXP-specific newsgroup: http://news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 Larry wrote: > Sorry for asking an XP question here, but I couldn't find a newsgroup on > XP. > > I have a five year old Dell laptop with Windows XP that someone gave me > recently. Half the time, whenever you click or right-click on anything, a > dialog appears saying, "configuring [or installing] Adobe 8.1." This > dialog > box just hangs, and you have to click it several times to get rid of it. > > I went to Add/Remove programs dialog box, and guess what? It's empty, none > of the programs on the computer are showing at all. > > I went to the Adobe folder in the Program Files folder, thinking of simply > deleting all the Adobe fiiles. There are two folders in it, one for > version > 7, and one for version 8, but when I try to delete, I get message saying I > can't do this with certain files which are being used or something. > (Sorry > I'm not quoting it exactly.) > > So: this dialog box keeps hanging up the computer, and there seems no > way > to get rid of Adobe on the computer. And the Add-Remove box is messed up. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > Larry
Guest Don Phillipson Posted June 28, 2008 Posted June 28, 2008 Re: Adobe dialog that won't go away "Larry" <larry328NOSPAM@att.net> wrote in message news:exhPgZV2IHA.3688@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > Sorry for asking an XP question here, but I couldn't find a newsgroup on XP. > > I have a five year old Dell laptop with Windows XP that someone gave me > recently. Half the time, whenever you click or right-click on anything, a > dialog appears saying, "configuring [or installing] Adobe 8.1." This dialog > box just hangs, and you have to click it several times to get rid of it. > > I went to Add/Remove programs dialog box, and guess what? It's empty, none > of the programs on the computer are showing at all. > > I went to the Adobe folder in the Program Files folder, thinking of simply > deleting all the Adobe fiiles. There are two folders in it, one for version > 7, and one for version 8, but when I try to delete, I get message saying I > can't do this with certain files which are being used or something. (Sorry > I'm not quoting it exactly.) > > So: this dialog box keeps hanging up the computer, and there seems no way > to get rid of Adobe on the computer. And the Add-Remove box is messed up. 1. Since you use XP, you will get better results in an XP newsgroup. 2. E.g. XP users will tell you that Adobe Reader v.8 seems seriously buggy (which was why it was amended so soon.) 3. Your swiftest solution is probably -- DELete everything in C:\Temp and C:\Windows\Temp in case an incomplete installation causes your system hang. -- Download (to a known directory on your PC) the large files (20 to 30 Mb?) to instal both version 7 and version 8 of Adobe Reader. 4. Uninstal your current Reader(s) and remove its parent subdirectory. 5. Instal Adobe Reader v.7 and run as normal. If this meets your functional needs, do not bother with Reader v.8 for some months (hoping it may be fully debugged.) -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
Guest J. P. Gilliver Posted July 4, 2008 Posted July 4, 2008 Re: Adobe dialog that won't go away Don Phillipson wrote: [] > 2. E.g. XP users will tell you that Adobe Reader v.8 seems seriously > buggy (which was why it was amended so soon.) [] > 5. Instal Adobe Reader v.7 and run as normal. If this > meets your functional needs, do not bother with > Reader v.8 for some months (hoping it may be fully debugged.) Or Foxit 2.3. (Even runs on 98SElite - well, 2.2 does, can't remember if I've tried 2.3 yet.) I've yet to find anything _I_ want to do with a .pdf reader that Acrobat does which Foxit doesn't, and the latter is _far_ smaller (and less intrusive). -- J. P. Gilliver | Tel. +44 1634 203298
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