Acrobat Reader crashing...

[Homer J. Simpson]

For months now I've been using Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 (and have been
religiously installing its updates as they come out).

On a few machines (all running XP Pro) I can consistently cause it to crash
by double-clicking its system menu (that is, in the window's upper-left
corner, with the intent to cause it to close).

Anybody else seeing this? I've *just* updated it to 7.0.7, and the problem
still exists.

I even managed to get my home machine to BSOD while doing this repeatedly...

 

[Dave B]

"Doctor, it hurts when I do this"
"Don't do that"

Can you not use the X in the upper right to close the app instead?

 

[Homer J. Simpson]

"Doctor, it hurts when I do this"

"Don't do that"

Can you not use the X in the upper right to close the app instead?

Sure I can. But why should I change my habits because of one misbehaving
program--especially when this is some system-wide default action, thus taken
for granted and expected to "just work", by every single other application
out there. That's all I'm saying. Why did Adobe even have to override
this, and not just let that particular event bubble up to the default
handler...? Acrobat Reader doesn't even add anything to the system
menu...It's pretty hard for me to blame "someone else", since out of every
single other application I have on my machine, Acrobat Reader is the only
one exhibiting this behavior...

I'd be pretty embarassed if I, as a developer, would try to override and
then bust a system-wide hook, and had to tell a customer just not to use it
anymore...and leave this bug in for a few revs...

(I've just played with it some more--a single click, just to try to get the
system menu to show, also crashes Acrobat Reader. So does Alt-Space. So
does dropping the main app menu (single mouse click), and then using the
left/right cursor keys to change menu selection until the system menu needs
to be drawn.)

 

[Guest]

Homer, I have Adobe Reader 7.0.0 and all the menus work OK.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Dump that POS and get Foxit Reader.

Foxit Reader for Windows
Small, Fast, Clean, and FREE PDF Reader for Everyday Use
Download link at the bottom of the page
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

Direct download
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/foxitreader/foxitreader.zip

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[John Jay Smith]

foxit is fast but if you make it as default you cannot see pdfs as thumbails
in
windows explorer.. or I think this is the case...

anyone to confirm this?

I use it as an alternative now but not as default.

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