Adobe Acrobat 9 Uninstall
Acrobat crashed shortly after it had been used and said the license service was not running. Licensing service wouldn't start. Uninstalled and reinstalled. Then would not run at all. Error Patch package could not be found. Verify that the patch exisits and is a valid windows installer package. Not will not uninstall or reinstall. Help
Muhammad Ahmad Imran
have you checked the installer at some other machine, could be some virus infection.
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No I have not,. I will check for viruses and check the installer at another machine.
then the only thing I would say is OS is causing the problem, reinstall it.
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I can install on other computers with the same installation files, I can install other things on this computer that use an msi package. It is just royally messed up. I am planning to try to uninstall it manually with instructions found under another question having to do with Acrobat 8. Acrobat 9 can't be that different. If you have instructions for manually removing Acrobat 9 Standard specifically, I would be really happy to get them. Thanks
To uninstall Acrobat 9.1 in Windows
Launch the Control Panel and from it select Add or Remove Programs.
From the list of applications that appears, highlight Adobe Acrobat 9 and press the Change/Remove button.
The Acrobat 9 Application Maintenance dialog appears. Press the Next button and then select Remove to remove Acrobat 9 (and the Acrobat 9.1 patch).
Those instructions were found here>
Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1 Release Notes:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/408/kb408814.html
Launch the Control Panel and from it select Add or Remove Programs.
From the list of applications that appears, highlight Adobe Acrobat 9 and press the Change/Remove button.
The Acrobat 9 Application Maintenance dialog appears. Press the Next button and then select Remove to remove Acrobat 9 (and the Acrobat 9.1 patch).
Those instructions were found here>
Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1 Release Notes:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/408/kb408814.html
Another option may be to try and repair your Acrobat 9 Installation, as described here:
http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_7433481_repair-acrobat-9-installation.html
http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_7433481_repair-acrobat-9-installation.html
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Jonvee, I had already tried to uninstall with add remove programs and it will not work. Says the package is not found or not a good msi file. The link in the 2nd email doesn't work. Thanks for the try anyway.
Another possible option may be to try uninstalling it with Revo Uninstaller Pro, but i'm not sure if this has ever been tried, or whether it will be successful ...
http://www.revouninstaller.com/
http://www.revouninstaller.com/
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Nice thought, but revouinstaller doesn't see Acrobat 9.00 so that is out.
Any chance you have a Restore Point you could go back to, to retry the removal?
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Thanks, I had not been successful in finding the .exe before, because I could not get it out of just Program Files. I have now. It scanned and found lots of errors in the registry related to the acrobat. I can't afford to have to rebuild if it messes the computer up until the end of the week. I will try it then and probably award you the points. I had not found revo uninstaller. Thanks
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This did not totally fix the problem, but I was able to edit the remainder out of the registry manually.