Adobe Reader

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Steve H

When I try to load Adobe Reader V.8 in Vista (Ultimate), I get the following
error message:
'The Temp folder is on a drive that is full or inaccessible. Free up space
on the drive or verify that you have write permission on the Temp folder'

Since none of the above is correct, ie, the drive is not full or
inaccessible, and I do have Administrators rights, can somebody out there
help me out or suggest how I can get this program to load.

Thanks in advance

Stephen
 
G

Guest

You're probably correct in stating that it has been asked and answered many
times. However, the problem is that the serach facility in these forums is
very poor and when I've searched for topics I don't think I've had relevant
results more that 50% of the time (and that's being generous!) The reason
questions are asked several times is that searching isn't easy - though I
wholly accept that some people never even try!

Part of the problem, in my opinion, is that there are far too many trolls
out there wasting everyone's time. This is particularly true in a forum
connected with any new Microsoft product. If only there was a way to limit
the posts to those asking and answering genuine questions - Oh, and yes
didn't Microsoft state that they would have a solution to the spam problem by
the end of 2006? I get over 3,000 spam e-mails filtered by my ISP each week
(and haven't had a false postive in almost a year. Those that get through
are further filtered by MailWasher.

Anyway, I've wandered way off topic.

Regards

AC
 
K

Ken Blake, MVP

AC said:
You're probably correct in stating that it has been asked and
answered many times. However, the problem is that the serach
facility in these forums is very poor and when I've searched for
topics I don't think I've had relevant results more that 50% of the
time (and that's being generous!)
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No, the problem is that what you think is a web-based forum is actually a
usenet newsgroup. You are accessing this newsgroup with the web-based
interface to it, and that's the slowest, clunkiest, most error-prone method
there is. Do yourself a favor and switch to a newsreader, such as Outlook
Express, which comes with Windows. See
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm

However, although a nesreader is the best to participate actively, for
searches, better than either method is Googlegroups advanced search, at
http://groups.google.com/advanced_search?q=&
 
G

Guest

In an ideal world I would use Windows Mail and indeed I do for other
newsgroups but this group is not available via the
'freetext.usenetserver.com' Unfortunately I cannot use my regular ISP for
newsgroups as they stopped providing access around a year ago (UK -
Freeserve/Wanadoo/Orange). Google groups os ok but displays so few topics in
asuch a large font that in a busy group like this it is cumbersome.

Anyway, everything in life is a compromise (except my Murcielago) so I'll
retreat.

Regards

AC
 
S

Scott

You're probably correct in stating that it has been asked and answered many
times. However, the problem is that the serach facility in these forums is
very poor ...........
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Nope. It's just your interface to them that is poor.

Try one of these links (in order of preference).

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.vista.general

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.vista.general

--
Scott http://angrykeyboarder.com

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
NOTICE: In-Newsgroup (and therefore off-topic) comments on my sig will
be cheerfully ignored, so don't waste our time.
 
G

Guest

well click news://msnews.microsoft.com

AC said:
In an ideal world I would use Windows Mail and indeed I do for other
newsgroups but this group is not available via the
'freetext.usenetserver.com' Unfortunately I cannot use my regular ISP for
newsgroups as they stopped providing access around a year ago (UK -
Freeserve/Wanadoo/Orange). Google groups os ok but displays so few topics
in
asuch a large font that in a busy group like this it is cumbersome.

Anyway, everything in life is a compromise (except my Murcielago) so I'll
retreat.

Regards

AC
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K

Ken Blake, MVP

AC said:
In an ideal world I would use Windows Mail and indeed I do for other
newsgroups but this group is not available via the
'freetext.usenetserver.com' Unfortunately I cannot use my regular
ISP for newsgroups as they stopped providing access around a year ago
(UK - Freeserve/Wanadoo/Orange).
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That doesn't matter; you can still do it. Both Windows Mail and its
predecessor, Outlook Express, let you easily use multiple news servers (I
personally use five with Windows Mail). Just add msnews.microsoft.com as a
second server.
 
G

Guest

Steve H said:
When I try to load Adobe Reader V.8 in Vista (Ultimate), I get the following
error message:
'The Temp folder is on a drive that is full or inaccessible. Free up space
on the drive or verify that you have write permission on the Temp folder'

Since none of the above is correct, ie, the drive is not full or
inaccessible, and I do have Administrators rights, can somebody out there
help me out or suggest how I can get this program to load.
Click to expand...

adobe installation failed because you're a STUPID user disabled UAC.
TURN ON UAC and don't be stupid!
 
S

Scott

All I wanted to do was load Adobe Reader, not start WW3
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I wasn't suggesting WW3.
--
Scott http://angrykeyboarder.com

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
NOTICE: In-Newsgroup (and therefore off-topic) comments on my sig will
be cheerfully ignored, so don't waste our time.
 
K

kraut

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
NOTICE: In-Newsgroup (and therefore off-topic) comments on my sig will
be cheerfully ignored, so don't waste our time.
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I got something you can bottom post moron.
 

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