[Ham-Computers] Request assistance with Adobe reader

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Lloyd,

If you still have DOS functions on the machine, I can walk you through it. 
Over the years I found DOS removed everything, provided you knew where to 
look.

For the record, if there is any computer that removes 'all' files it 
installs for an application, i have never known anyone who owned such a 
machine.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <WA5CAB at cs.com>
To: <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Request assistance with Adobe reader


> 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?
>>
>
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