-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Adobe Acrobat reader
- From: "Michael Scott" <mcs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 08:57:44 +0930
Suzanne, I have now joined your vendetta! I will see if I can try Grants'
suggestion, but right now it's a pain in the proverbial!!! Lyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "suzánne" <lailoken@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 4:01 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Adobe Acrobat reader
>
> I have a personal vendetta against Adobe products just now! grrrrrrrr!!!!
>
> if you didn't use the add/remove programs applet, all kinds of stuff will
be
> left that Acrobat installs to your system. even a remove that way does
not
> remove everything that it writes to your registry. just deleting files
for
> programs will not uninstall the application, and can possibly cause major
> problems if some of these programs have written to your boot files.
>
> I have never tried installing 5.0 full version over 4.0, but the update
for
> v 4.0 to v 5.0 will remove 4.0 for you, but to do that, you need either
the
> install cd for 4.0 or for the install of 5.0 to be able to find 4.0 on
your
> hard disk. does that make any sense?
>
> also, there is an update at adobe for acrobat 5.0
> http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/update.html
>
> ~s
>
>
> ----- From: "Grant Karpik"
> >
> > You could always try reinstalling version 4 and then uninstalling it.
> > That way it should catch everything.
> >
> > On 13 Jul 2002 at 20:05, Michael Scott wrote:
> >
> > > Hello group,
> > >
> > > When I enquired about updating to Adobe AR 5.0 it seemed simple enough
> > > to delete version 4.0. There are so many bits and pieces and
properties
> > > is not telling me which version I have on some of them. When I tried
> > > deleting version 4.0 I had a window telling me it could not find
> > > something or other.
> > >
> > > How about this............. delete everything I can find re Adobe
> > > Acrobat Reader and start again. Would that mess anything up?
>
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