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I have a Dell desktop PC with Windows Home XP and operate on Firefox, not IE. My PC came with Adobe 7.0 already installed. I have tried so many times to upgrade it to 8.0 but to no avail. I even joined an Adobe Acrobat forum and the solutions offered did not work on my pc. The 8.0 software will download properly, but when it is installing I get error message 1714 "The original Acrobat Reader cannot be removed" (or something close). I tried to uninstall it when I had IE and after I switched to Firefox I thought that would help..but nope!! When I reboot a prompt comes up saying I had not completed my Adobe Acrobat installation, but when I press continue it only does a "catch 22" and goes back to the same error message. I would even settle for getting rid of that prompt if I can't upgrade to 8.0 Does anyone in here know firsthand what the problem is and how to solve it? Any help will be appreciated..
I can't stand Acrobat either, but unfortunately, many of the websites I use to pay my bills on, force you to use Acrobat.
Mikey_NC, try uninstalling Acrobat 7 completely, then do a fresh install of version 8.
Go into Control Panel-->Add Remove Programs, and click on Acrobat 7 to uninstall it.
Good luck.
THANKS FRIEND! Didn't work the first time but I will go back in there and try it again. I will also go into the link that Tek_Freek offered. Any suggestions are good. If all else fails I own a .357 mag...maybe I can scare the crap out of my PC.
THANKS FRIEND! Didn't work the first time but I will go back in there and try it again. I will also go into the link that Tek_Freek offered. Any suggestions are good. If all else fails I own a .357 mag...maybe I can scare the crap out of my PC.
Location: Jonquil City (aka Smyrna) Georgia- by Atlanta
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I despise Acrobat. I hate that when you fill out the forms using it, you cannot save a copy to print out later. I hope somebody comes out with a pirate patch to get around that.
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