Recent content by jhsachs

A couple of people have suggested getting a USB dongle. There's one sitting in my Amazon cart, waiting for my order total to go over the magic $35 for free shipping. (I'm $0.06 short!) So far I have no reason to suspect that either a hardware or software problem is more likely. @dalchina...

Reading the previous replies left me with several bits of potentially useful information but no clear direction. I investigated group policies and found that I'm a member of a bunch of them. They all have generic names that suggest they're standard Microsoft objects, except one which is named...

I have no idea what 24h2 means, and I've never heard of 25h2, enablement package, etc. I gather Microsoft releases new versions of Windows 11 from time to time, which is news to me. I thought they just released updates to fix specific issues. What issues I'm having: it's almost impossible to...

It says "Version 24H2 (OS Build 26100.9168)."

I want to do a repair update on my Windows 11 Pro system. According to Microsoft's instructions, the procedure is: go to Settings>System>Recovery, find the "Fix problems without resetting your PC," and click the Reinstall now button. Thee is no "Fix problems without resetting your PC," and no...

@Edwin said, "I suggest running a pre-release version of Sumatra, which are way more sophisticated..." Fantabulous! It not only lets me display the menu bar, it displays a tip for how to do it. Now that I've done it, though, I'd like that tip to go away...

@KevTech wrote: "Have you ever considered PDF Exchange Editor?" No... in fact I never heard of it. I appreciate the suggestion, but I'm not planning to investigate the original problem further. I was facing an intolerable situation with Adobe Acrobat and Reader, but now it's resolved. I'm...

@Ghot @Edwin I have a question about SumatraPDF. I'm having trouble getting access to the SumatraPDF forum on GitHub, so perhaps one of you can give me a quicker answer. I want the menu bar to be displayed at all times. I opened the settings file and discovered that the relevant setting...

@Lavik Here's my very unfavorable impression of AcroCleaner: First, the page you linked to says, "Adobe provides the utility as a least resort to repair machines after a failed or partial uninstall..." Least resort? I don't expect that kind of goof in customer-facing content from a major...

@Lavik Read the intervening messages (if you enjoy reading about other people's pain)... uninstalling and reinstalling "Adobe Reader" had no effect whatever. I'm just going to have to live with a machine that is haunted by a ghost of Adobe Reader that I cannot exorcise. That should be pretty...

@Ghot I installed PDFgear and tried it briefly. My first impression is: If you just want to open a PDF to read it requires too many clicks, so it's not a replacement for Adobe Reader. It looks like it has everything else I'd want, though, so PDFgear+Acrobat or PDFgear+Sumatra could be a...

@Brink, my Start menu doesn't look anything like the one you posted: (The right side scrolls, but I don't think any useful information is missing.) There is a "Recent" heading, but no "Pinned/All/Recommended." Maybe this is a result of corruption that would be fixed by a repair install. I...

@Ghot asked, "When you re-installed it, what location did it "say" it was installing it to?" I didn't notice, because at that point it seemed unimportant. I uninstalled and reinstalled, but the installer never told me where it was stashing the thing. (It appears that Adobe now ignores all of...

Like virtually every other computer user, I have Adobe Reader installed on my system. If I open a PDF, Windows runs it. But if I try to run it from the Start menu, I get "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Reader 10.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe / The specified path does not exist." Indeed it does not; Adobe...

No, it doesn't. That's the only reason I started this thread. What kind of evidence do I need to present to prove that? The documents in question reside in a source control system. The only way to change them is to check them out and then check them back in. While I have them checked out, they...