[Ham-Computers] Request assistance with Adobe reader

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Lloyd,

You didn't say and I don't recall what OS you are running.  But in addition 
to Aaron's suggestions, I used to run Regedit, start at the top with all 
folders closed and do a search for (in your case) Adobe, and then Acrobat.  And 
delete almost everything that the search turned up.  Then reboot and see if the 
machine comes back up.  :-)  The trick is in the "almost everything".  With 
keywords "Adobe" and "Acrobat" I don't think you are going to delete anything 
belonging to another program.  But do read each line that you turn up and 
conciously think about it before you delete it.  I've done this a lot of times over 
the years.  Did mess up another application once, and have to uninstall and 
reinstall it (which is why I say read each search result).  But never yet ended up 
with an unbootable machine.  And although it can take several hours, it has 
never taken as long as reformatting the boot drive and starting over from 
scratch (on this machine, that takes almost a week).  However, do your regular 
routine backups first (daily, weekly, whatever you normally do).

As a second suggestion (not free), last year I bought a program that does 
most of this automagically.  Plus it cleans up a lot of unused .DLL's that I used 
to mostly miss.  The name is Registry Mechanic, by PC Tools Software.  I now 
run it after any Uninstall, usually after rebooting.  It almost always finds a 
few things that the uninstaller missed.

In a message dated 1/17/2006 7:35:09 PM Central Standard Time, kk7iz at cox.net 
writes: 
> I have Adobe 5.0 or 5.0.5 hung up in my machine and can not uninstall it. I
> get a message ""Unable to locate installation log file "UninstX.isu"".
> Uninstallation will not continue. I need to remove it to clean up my postal
> stuff. When I try to reinstall it, it 90% installs and hangs up (program
> does not responde message). I then have to reboot the computer to get out of
> it.
> It does not show up in my "All Programs" list, but is shown in the
> "Add/remove" list in the Control Panel.
> Any ideas out there?
> 

Robert Downs - Houston
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