Mindful Musings

After Googleing for some time and trying to figure out why Adobe files would not open on my Windows box without some sort of trouble, I came upon a brilliant solution on Experts Exchange that worked like the charm.

In short, my Adobe Acrobate reader would lock up when trying to open PDF files of any size or kind. It would use 50%+ of the CPU and sit there till I ended the task from the task manager. A similar problem would occur if I were to try and view PDF files from inside any browser. I had tried uninstalling, re-installing, updating, downgrading and everything in between.

Apparently, Adobe Acrobat Reader starts creating temporary files in your Documents and Settings/Local Settings/Temp folder and does not know when to quit. These files exceed the magic 65xxx number and then Acrobat is at a complete loss. Here is a simple fix.

Go to C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temp where “username” is your Windows username. Find and delete all the files in this directory starting with “Acr”. Once these are deleted, you will be able to run Acrobat Reader. No re-install or upgrade needed.

You would think Adobe would fix such a simple problem, but what do I know?