okie problem with adobe acrobat now ^_^;

[Mina Synd 0]

hokie here's the deal. one of my friends wants to play zero hour with me. so i install generals (deluxe pack with gen and zero hour in. uk edition) then i check out filefront for patches. of course half of the patches say "for first decade" so i don't know what to do. i decide to uninstall and install my first decade version. everytime i run the installer, it locks up and crashes. everytime i try to manually delete the generals folder, it comes up with a vista denial box >_>

how the heck am i meant to get rid of it? o_O at the moment i can't even access task manager to shut down the crashed installer, because task manager refuses to open until the crashed installer is shut down XD;; so right now i'm kinda stuck in a catch 22 and there's NOTHING I CAN DO D:

 

okie, update: i've managed to bin all the generals files except the main application which is giving me the "destination folder access denied" message. no matter how many times i click try again nothing happens :\

 

[note, if this is explained in another recent post or in one of the instructions i'll delete this thread as soon as i discover, in the meantime though i'm gonna BEG FOR HELP D:]

 

oh right my rig;

 

OS: Vista 32-bit

RAM: 2GB

processor: intel duel core (two 1.80GHz)

graphics card: radeon x1950 pro 256MB i think...

main hard drive: 227GB (free space 30GB)

hard drive it's installed on: 700GB (429GB free)

pretty sure i've got the latest directX aaaand i'm pretty sure all the default file security stuff is turned off (y'know, user account control and all that jive)

 

 

okie! update on the situation. my computer crashed XD though when i rebooted i managed to delete all the generals stuff. however rather then deleting this topic i might as well use it for an alternate solution o.o see adobe acrobat runs it's annoying little installer thing everytime i right click on something. it's not a big problem but it's an annoyance and i can't work out how to delete it short of actually removing acrobat completely o-o; so any help welcomed (also someone to change the topic title unless i've inadvertantly done it already xD; )

Edited October 27, 2008 by Mina Synd

[BioBen 3]

Yeah mine does that too, although my computer isn't connected to the internet so it just sits there whining at me

[Doctor Destiny 41]

Uninstall Adobe and reinstall it. Make sure you don't install extra nonsense accidentally.

[Mina Synd 0]

ugh darn... i didn't add any of the extra nonsense though :\ it just added a right click option for everything. and i removed it with Mmm but it still pops up with the adobe installer thing everytime i right click --; it's annoying D: guess i'll have to uninstall sooner or later... but i don't wanna ; - ;

 

edit: omi goshi i hit the 2000 post mark =O colonel now! ^-^

Edited October 29, 2008 by Mina Synd

[Doctor Destiny 41]

It would take what? 2 minutes to uninstall Adobe?

[Mina Synd 0]

eeeer no. if it were -just- acrobat then yah it would be easy. but it's part of the master collection CS3... which means if i wanna install it via the uninstaller or through the control panels "add/remove programs" thing i have to uninstall everything. which means i'd have to remove the whole thing >_>; like, 15 big programs ; i'm gonna try an manually delete the adobe files but i don't know if that'll work :\ i really don't wanna have to reinstall the whole of CS3... for starters it would wipe out all my layouts in illustrator and such... not to mention it would take an hour or two to install... all i need is some little quick fix to stop it running the windows installer everytime i right click .-.;

[Doctor Destiny 41]

Have you tried maybe... googling your issue?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=a...amp;btnG=Search

Because I'm nice like that, I did it for you.

[Mina Synd 0]

thankies ^-^ i'll do that in a lil while maybe. had a look at some of the links already :3