Adobe Reader won't install...

Download the newest Adobe Reader full installer file to your desktop from the link below. Once it's there, simply double click on the file to run the installer.

Note: Clicking on the link below will immediately open the download dialogue box.

ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/10.x/10.1.1/en_US/AdbeRdr1011_en_US.exe

Hope this helps.

Grif

It worked. Thank you so much!

I was getting a sharing conflict between Adobe Illus 10 and Adobe Rdr 10. Files I created in Illus 10 could not be deleted or renamed because "another program is using file". I removed Adobe Rdr 10 (or tried to) using Windows "add/remove..." It didn't work because the above mentioned file is missing. I deleted all references to Adobe Acrobat 10 from registry. Registry shows Adobe Acrobat 6 (came with comuter) plus Acrobat 9.1 & 9.4, but they are inoperative. Can't remove anything. I've tried installing Acrobat 9 from Adobe PS Elements 8 disk, but get msg: "a newer version already installed". Nothing works. I've restored computer to earlier time before yesterday's attempted removals. I tried "safe mode" uninstall. Nothing works. Trying to work with Adobe help is brain damage! They want money.

Runnning W XP Pro sp3.

Any suggestions?

grollands38

You might have to ask if folk know where it moved to or start your own new discussion.

By following links from other sources as well as this one, I was able to locate the cleanup file, downloaded it and carefully selected only Adobe Reader to be removed. I had v. 6 (came with the computer) plus versions 8 and two versions of 9 installed,,,a total of over 300 megs that absolutely would not be removed using the normal methods. And each time I responded to an upgrade offer from Adobe, I thought the upgrade process was removing older versions. Not so! Trying to get help from Adobe was brain damage and required money.

The above program is no longer supported or offered by MicroSoft, but can be had elsewhere on the web. I checked it for malware and viruses before running the install.exe. It removed the offending software with no apparent residual problems. I downloaded Foxit PDF reader and couldn't be happier with the result. And I no longer have the "sharing conflict" issues which started this search in the first place.

I used AVG Free antivirus for a number of years and recently learned of Avira from a computer tech. I removed AVG and have been using Avira (smaller footprint) for about a year. The Windows Install Cleanup program found residual files from AVG and I cleaned those out too.

Hope this helps others with similar problems with Adobe Acrobat Reader issues.

I have been trying to install this for 6 months! I have done it on every other computer before and would have to revert to my iphone to open items and then print them on my wireless printer! This seriously installed it in less than 5 minutes! I have no clue what the difference is but it worked! Thank you.

Get rid of all instances of Adobe reader as well as ARM. Install the latest version fresh and get it from the Adobe site only.

Here's a link to the newest version, as of today:

ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/10.x/10.1.4/en_US/AdbeRdr1014_en_US.exe

As before, uninstall the old version first, then install the new one from the link above.

Hope this helps.

Grif

Thanks for your help Grif, working fine now. John Portugal.

Security updates happen frequently and the link provided earlier is quite old and outdated. Here's the newest release:

Please note: Clicking on the link below will immediately open a download dialogue window to the Adobe Reader installation file.
http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/11.x/11.0.08/en_US/AdbeRdr11008_en_US.exe

Hope this helps.

Grif