Re: Adobe Reader will not launch in XP Home Edition SP 2

Something appears to block the Acrobat reader on your machine.
It might be your firewall, your anti-virus software or some
malware. Disconnect your machine from the Internet, temporarily
disable your virus scanner and firewall, then try again.


"AweSum Andy" <AweSumAndy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Pegasus:
Results of command "notepad c:\test.txt"
Window with the message, ".pdf = AcroExch.Document"
Results of command "c:\test.pdf"
nothing


"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:


"AweSum Andy" <AweSum Andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Just bought a new desktop with XP Home Edition, Serv Pack 2. Have
downloaded
and installed Adobe Reader 8.x. System "says" installed correctly and
shows
desktop shortcut, but when double click on .pdf files, hour glass
appears
for
second or 2, then goes away. No file open happens. Tried old versions
of
Adobe Reader (7.0.1), exact same results. No error messages displayed
either. So far, this is the only program I am having problems with.

Try this:
- Copy a sample .pdf file to c:\Test.pdf
- Click Start / Run / cmd {OK}
- Type these commands:
assoc .pdf > c:\test.txt {Enter}
notepad c:\test.txt (Enter}
- Report the contents of c:\test.txt
- While still in black screen of the Command Prompt,
type this command and report what you see on the
screen:
c:\Test.pdf





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