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[electricland]

IT guy has just gone away, baffled by my Acrobat Reader problems. It's always nice to know it's not just me. He says they may end up reimaging my computer (I'd get XP, so that would be nice, although I suppose I'd lose the spiffy admin privileges I've had up to now).

The hidden downside to eating breakfast and getting out of the house in time to be at work by 9:30: I was hungry by 11:20.

Am wearing some of my new clothes. Also fuzzy purple socks. I like these jeans so much I may have to go buy another pair. Yay Cotton Ginny!

Happy Birthday crankygrrl!

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[raithen.livejournal.com]

*hee*

so you can imagine why, when breakfast is at 6:30 or 7, I ALWAYS plan a midmorning snack ;).

elevenses, baybee! embrace it!

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Strangely enough, just after I wrote that we had an unexpected (rescheduled from 3:30) birthday celebration, with cake and trifle and 2 kinds of cookie and pistachios and strawberries and frozen raspberries.

Odd how the universe works.

[llnaughty.livejournal.com]

what is your acrobat reader problem? what version of acrobat do you have?

[llnaughty.livejournal.com]

i'm just curious because we've had a rash of issues that were all caused by the same obscure but easy to fix problem.

is your acrobat simply not opening when you try to open a pdf file?

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Right now I don't have any working version. The short story is:

- I was having problems reading PDFs in Internet Explorer. As it turns out, this was related to some other problem, but I didn't know this. Also, I kept getting messages suggesting that I upgrade to 7.0.

- I tried to install 7.0 and it wouldn't let me, claiming that another installation was running (it wasn't)

- I uninstalled 5.0, which turns out to have been the only functional version

- 6.0 appears to be installed on my machine but in fact doesn't seem to be fully installed -- I certainly can't use it for anything

- I tried to uninstall 6.0 and it wouldn't let me, claiming that another installation was running...

- rebooting doesn't work

- it's some kind of Windows error

- I came across one fix that suggested editing the registry, which no, not going there

My mistake (which I see so clearly in hindsight) was in not letting well enough alone, continuing to ignore the upgrade invitations, and using 5.0. This machine is fairly old and at least 2 other people had it before me, so there's quite a lot of accumulated crap and weirdness on it. Ah well...

[llnaughty.livejournal.com]

yeah that looks messy. not the issue that we were experiencing here unfortunately. so looks like you only have 6.0 installed at this point, and not a complete install. can you try installing 6.0 on top of itself and then uninstall it?

[electricland.livejournal.com]

hm.

Looks like Adobe doesn't offer 6.0 on its website any more. Grrrrr. So, looks like not.

I think I'll just let IT deal with this...

[llnaughty.livejournal.com]

you can find older versions on versiontracker.com, but yeah if you don't want to deal with it, that's what IT's for. ;) i just personally don't like doing a reimage unless absolutely necessary.