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anyone else having trouble with [adobe reader]?. every time i use it i cant turn it off/get rid of it, i have to shut down and restart my computer, yes it did install the latest version it just got worse. IS IT JUST ME'--IS IT JUST ME' for cryin out a bable jack norcohn bleafin arssiniky popalagan etc, etc... :wall:
 
Trouble with Adobe Reader? Why, pish, whiffle and tosh! As Doc told me once many moons ago, get the system running as you like it, then turn OFF the automatic updates.

Yesterday my neighbor cranked up his Dell WinXP box. Uses it maybe once a week.

Soon as it was settled down, he got "updates are ready" messages for Adobe Reader, Flash Player, Java, MS Security Essentials, and Windows itself.

Took 40 minutes for the updates to install and then was told to restart. And of course, soon as it was restarted we got "new updates have been downloaded and are ready to install". And of course the Reader, Flash, and MSSE icons were now running in the taskbar.

argh. This never happened with my Osborne!

Tom
 
ooohh nutmeg, thanks, im not alone then, i thought id have to learn to speak swaah-healy in order to fix this problem.----yikes, "swaah-healey"----wow! just inexplicably made that up, well it is the british car forum isnt it? :crazy:... ahh, pish,whiffle,and tosh, let me guess, southern ireland is it?
 
"pish,whiffle,and tosh, let me guess, southern ireland is it?"

nah - those are my new lawyers down in Newark. Got them after I fired Dewey, Cheatham and Howe.

:banana:
 
Do not try to call Adobe...I have been trying to get the proper serial number to make the trial version of Photoshop Elements 9 legal for about 10 days. I do not understand much of anything that "Peggy" says on the phone, and they finally have understood that I do not need a refund, just a serial number for the Macintosh version as the Windows serial number did not work. Now they tell me I owe $6.31 for "SHIPPING". How much can a 20 digit number weigh?
 
Automagic "UPDATES" are evile and wrong.

Get to a stable, working state and TURN OFF ALL THAT CRAP!

Too late fer you, Ant'ny. You gotta fight Adobe. It ain't possible. They now OWN your box.

sorry.
 
DrEntropy said:
Automagic "UPDATES" are evile and wrong.

Get to a stable, working state and TURN OFF ALL THAT CRAP!

Too late fer you, Ant'ny. You gotta fight Adobe. It ain't possible. They now OWN your box.

sorry.
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Uh ohh, never seen Doc call time of death before.
 
DrEntropy said:
Too late fer you, Ant'ny. You gotta fight Adobe. It ain't possible. They now OWN your box.

sorry.
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Ya know, very few problems anythig with a full choke can't fix. :cowboy:
 
I select updates to use.
I also go into each program and re-name all the update files so it won't automatically update.
Windoze?
Carp (sp).
It took me a year to figure out how to make this box quit trying to update at each shutdown.
For me, I had to disable the profile for Auto Updates, and it finally quit.
If it works, leave it alone.

Windoze, wait until updates have been out for a couple of days, then google the KB number and find out what they are doing to computers out tyhere.
 
toc, its been more then a year that every 8 minutes ive been getting rabbit punched by [recovery disk "D" is full], just minutes ago i got up enough brass to pressed the button to empty the recycle bin, sat here with my eyes closed gritting my teath not knowing if id have a small explosion no programs and a permanent black screen, thats how little i know about "puters". :frown:
 
anthony7777 said:
just minutes ago i got up enough brass to pressed the button to empty the recycle bin, :frown:
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High brass, low brass, it don't matter as either will "empty the bin".
 
I am now running W7 on my duel core computers,(2) and have no issues with Adobe. I always turn off any automatic updates on everything. I just get the prompts that their available. I decide if I want them or not. I did have problems with Adobe in my older lap top, but that was a memory problem and a slow processor. PJ
 
Paul - I envy you running Win7. I would do the same, but on my WinXP box, I've got dozens (100s?) of apps I use that I've accumulated over the years. No way am I going to try to trace down all those sources and re-install them as Win7 would require.

You know, when I read all the hassles we go through with constant updates and upgrades, virus and malware, etc ... I can't help but remember when we just had secretaries and typewriters, and company presidents said "Miss Brown, take a letter", or we just rolled the paper in and banged out a few sentences (not worrying about typeface, color, background, graphics import, printer jams, etc.).

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Tom, President, Luddites International (dwindling membership)
 
NutmegCT said:
Paul - I envy you running Win7. I would do the same, but on my WinXP box, I've got dozens (100s?) of apps I use that I've accumulated over the years. No way am I going to try to trace down all those sources and re-install them as Win7 would require.

You know, when I read all the hassles we go through with constant updates and upgrades, virus and malware, etc ... I can't help but remember when we just had secretaries and typewriters, and company presidents said "Miss Brown, take a letter", or we just rolled the paper in and banged out a few sentences (not worrying about typeface, color, background, graphics import, printer jams, etc.).
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I know what your talking about, as I have some old stuff that I keep on an old lap top running windows 98. Believe it or not, I have two boxes of 3 1/2 floppies, around 3 to 400 I guess, full of stuff that will in no way run on the new computers in their present form. I've upgraded a few, but that takes hours of work, not worth it. W 7 is merely a slight up grade of Vista with a few more bells and whistles. Even though I like W 7, it's not really worth the extra cost to upgrade from Vista. Of course, that's just my personal opinion. PJ
 
I've been surprised by what Win7 will run: I've got an old laptop loaded with Win-98 because of one DOS program I need to interact with a piece of camera equipment. That program wouldn't run on XP or Vista but it <span style="font-style: italic">does</span> run on Win7 - the only problem is I need to use a traditional serial port and my old laptop is the only one I have left with regular built-in port.
 
Actually I've read a lot of positive things about Win7.

But for me, the issue is all those old apps I've been running for 10 years or so. Investment, market analysis, portfolio mgt, mechanical television, o/s emulators and simulators, large database management packages, etc. Just hunting down all those folders and copying them is a huge task. Then re-installing (or trying to find the "installer") is another huge task.

They *may* run when copied over, but may not. And seeking new apps that do the same thing, then having to export all the data and hoping it imports correctly ... well, not my cuppa tea.

Ack. Sometimes I think a lot of time and money is spent just to "keep up with the Jetsons."

As Doc has said many times: Get it working like you want, then turn off the updates. I wonder if that applies to updating the hardware too!

Tom
(klunkily typed on my Dell Latitude D505, running Fedora 13 with Gnome 2.30.2)


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NutmegCT said:
Ack. Sometimes I think a lot of time and money is spent just to "keep up with the Jetsons."
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Couldn't agree more - I think more often, I've upgraded so that stuff will run on other machines than that it will run on my own.

NutmegCT said:
As Doc has said many times: Get it working like you want, then turn off the updates. I wonder if that applies to updating the hardware too!
Tom
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Certainly explains our hobby!
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Course carried to extremes, we'd be Amish.

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As far as features go, there's no comparison between Vista/W7 to 95/98! XP I've never used, so no comment on it. Basically I use the old 98 lap top for old car tech files and a few photos showing repair technicals that I keep in my shop. Had Linux in it before which I like, but all my files are Windows format and with the other computers being Windows, too much trouble to constantly convert them to install into a Linux machine. Takes some time to understand it, but I like Linux for it's speed! Everything happens, like NOW! PJ
 
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