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Acrobat Reader Reinstallation Accidentally deleted some reader files, reinstallation error

#1 User is offline   flying_suser 

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  Posted 15 February 2009 - 12:31 AM

In a stupid attempt to downgrade to acrobat reader 7.x (i was using ver 8) I accidentally deleted some reader related files, including the .exe, from the 'Program Files\Adobe\ ' folder. I didn't uninstall it.

Now I can't install reader ver 7/8/9. For 7 it is reporting about a file 'C:\WINDOWS\Installer\{AC76BA86-7AD7-1033-7B44-A81200000003}'
which I think is associated to some earlier Installation. I deleted this file and even then it's complaining during installation.

Version 9 is not getting installed because its looking for some *.msi related to version 8, which is already deleted, and version 8 is giving some vague error message.

I think I was able to clean all registry values related to old installations using the Regtools of CCleaner



I've foxit and pdfxchange viewer, but none of them work as plug-in with firefox, thats why i use acroread.


Can anyone help me out please to reinstall some version of Adobe reader

I'm using win XP Pro, SP2


thanx in advance

This post has been edited by flying_suser: 15 February 2009 - 12:32 AM

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Posted 15 February 2009 - 10:53 AM

Try the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301
See if it lists anything concerning Adobe and remove it. Then try again

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I've foxit and pdfxchange viewer, but none of them work as plug-in with firefox

http://forums.foxitsoftware.com/showthread.php?p=14697
http://www.google.com/search?q=foxit+plugi...ead.php?p=14697

This post has been edited by garmanma: 15 February 2009 - 10:53 AM

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Posted 15 February 2009 - 07:40 PM

I did the same thing and was installing version 8 which kept looking for a version 7 file. In the process I lost pdf files.Unfortunately I did not know what version I started with. So... I removed any mention of adobe. then downloaded version 5 which is all I needed. I will stay away from any upgrade in the future.

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