Can't run Adobe Reader, Any version.

[RScotti]

Hi,
I am trying to help my cousin who has Vista HP on a Gateway notebook. I have helped him over the phone to install &
uninstall Adobe Reader 7.2, 8.0, 8.1 & 8.1.1

I have Vista Ultimate on a high end desktop and 8.1.1 runs fine on my computer.
But when we try to run it . It says can't connect to a web page or something like that.
Also I am trying to find another FREE PDF reader but can't find one that you don't have to pay up front for.

 

[philo]

Hi,
I am trying to help my cousin who has Vista HP on a Gateway notebook. I

have helped him over the phone to install &

uninstall Adobe Reader 7.2, 8.0, 8.1 & 8.1.1

I have Vista Ultimate on a high end desktop and 8.1.1 runs fine on my computer.
But when we try to run it . It says can't connect to a web page or something like that.
Also I am trying to find another FREE PDF reader but can't find one that

you don't have to pay up front for.


foxit

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

 

[Paul Smith]

I am trying to help my cousin who has Vista HP on a Gateway notebook. I
have helped him over the phone to install &
uninstall Adobe Reader 7.2, 8.0, 8.1 & 8.1.1

I have Vista Ultimate on a high end desktop and 8.1.1 runs fine on my
computer.
But when we try to run it . It says can't connect to a web page or
something like that.
Also I am trying to find another FREE PDF reader but can't find one that
you don't have to pay up front for.

I use Foxit instead http://www.foxitsoftware.com/downloads/ (avoid the
version with the Toolbar). Which is free.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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[RScotti]

Thanks,
I went to Foxit BUT not this link and they wanted a credit card.
He just installed 7.09 (not sure of the 09) from his Gateway system files some place and that version worked OK.
I don't have the answer for this?

 

[Daddy Tadpole]

Acrobat crashed - yet again - on my so-called Family Premium Vista after a
recent obligatory Windows update.

I had to download 8.1.1, which works for the moment, but I was not happy
because I was in a hurry and have other work to do than chasing after
Microsoft/Adobe foibles. Knowing Adobe, you would not expect a particular
subspecies of a version of Acrobat to work with all subspecies of Windows.
Acrobat *always* gives trouble with XP, whether you're in a professional or
so-called family environment.

Regards

 

[RScotti]

Thanks,
Although I thought it was his Gateway notebook that caused the problem since he did install that 7.xx version.
That version was somewhere in his configuration. I don't know where though.