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Jun 17, 2004 | 1:12 pm

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Originally Posted by LIH Prem

I seem to remember that you can still find acrobat reader 5.x somewhere. Here's one:

http://www.pdfstore.com/details.asp?ProdID=614

6.x is pretty bloated and slow to load. Try 5.x.

-David

Thanks for your suggestion, LIH Prem, but it didn't work.

Here's what I did:
1. Removed Acrobat Reader 6 thru Add/Remove Program control panel
2. Restarted my computer.
3. Ran Ad-Aware (in case some spyware is present in my computer).
4. Downloaded Acrobat Reader 5
5. Installed Acrobat Reader 5
--> Program is ostensibly being installed... but after installation, there is no Acrobat Reader 5 application anywhere!
6. Restarted
7. Downloaded and re-installed Acrobat Reader 6
8. After installation, tried to start Acrobat Reader 6
--> The splash screen for Acrobat Reader 6 with all the U.S. patents listed appears... but the program does not load... just that splash screen.
--> When I Ctrl-Alt-Del, it's not there in the Application tab but is there in the Processes tab as "AcroRd32.exe" but no application window appears. Grr!

Anybody have any other suggestion? Thanks!

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