Got a notice while on Microsoft Site to upgrade to Adobe Reader X:;;;
ALL icons on desktop & Start menu (programs) are now ADOBE icons, And if selected, Take me to Adobe reader page; somehow are linked???? (From which I can only select to Cancel as PDF documents are not available). *(NOTE, bought computer on 7/31/11; PDF files read fine and I printed some; also, accessed ACER Inspire Owners Manual (.PDF) and read some. About a week later, while on Microsoft site, got a message that… (see below)
Have Downloaded and Uninstalled NUMEROUS (+15) times, (the only way to get icons back to normal). This is a NEW computer and I’m pretty sure came w/ Adobe Reader 9.3 or 4. *WAS definitly able to view PDF files @ that time. Only after being notified while on a Microsoft site that an update (to A.R.10) was available AND Recommended did I try to DL. Have even tried to revert to earlier version AND tried to D.L. earlier ver. (9.3 or 4) directly from Adobe site. But this problem recurrs. *NOTE, This also happened ONCE with Internet Explorer Icon, But not sure of details. PLEASE HELP dannerpaint@live.com THANKS
Running Win.7 (64bit) S.P.1 BUT I DO open IE with the 32 bit version. Have tried it (Downloading) on both (32 & 64 bit). Note, also running Microsoft Security Essentials, (if that makes any difference)…
~~ Today, Aug 29,11, Attempted to try D.L. again after reading in a forum (??) that someone had success loading Adobe Reader 10 using Mozilla FireFox, as in PROBLEM SOLVED!! However; I tried Google, SAME PROB. All (MOST) Icons change to Adobe Icons. This time I took pictures of each screen; Desktop, Start Menu, All Programs and OPENED Folders & Sub-folders, all showing Adobe Icons. As well as Processes to Uninstall. Any time an icon is clicked it goes to Adobe Reader instead of whatever its named. For exemple, tried to click WordPad to write this, went to Adobe PDF Reader instead. Also, Gives an error message first but if I simply close it (click “OK”) I have access to all PDF files, No Prob. Message states, “Adobe Reader could not open “SC_Reader.ico” because it is either not a supported file type or has been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email attachment and wasn’t correctly decoded).” –Read something about ‘FILE ASOCIATION ???”.
I Simply want to read my Owners Guide for this NEW computer, And pring important documents. I Know I could access when I first got it with no problems. It is an extreme inconvenience to have to download EACH time I want to view or print a PDF, ESPECIALLY since I can’t access most other programs at the same time, Have to uninstall Adobe Reader to do so, but can’t unistall w/ Adobe window (PDF file) open. Please help, keep in mind, I’m not very computer literate, so if anything has to do with the PROGRAMMING end of things, It’ll have to be step-by-step. Kevin
