Adobe is now officially as bad as Microsoft.

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Microsoft no longer supports its all-time most popular OS.

We get that.

It also FORCES people to purchase new hardware that is compatible with its new adware [OS].

Around about the 19th of Feb [last week]  Adobe Acrobat Reader auto updated...

To a version that is broken in Windows 7.

People are reliant on "legacy" OS systems { I use the word 'legacy' with sarcasm], often in critical and time-sensitive situations.

And good old Adobe auto-updates and breaks.

It's such a sophisticated and capable company it cannot offer an opt-out for compatibility with updates.

How about an OS VERSION check before providing and installing something incompatible?

Kinda makes sense... other people do it.

 

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

AI has taken over their thinking for them...somehow I think Natural Stupidity needs to be worked on first. Adobe? That's spelled  A-n-a-t-h-e-m-a.

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Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Time to find a new PDF app. I use PDF-XChange which is comparable to Adobe Acrobat. There are many others available. Not sure about compatibility with Windows 7 though.

You could also try deleting Adobe Creative Cloud, but it requires a special cleaning tool which is available from Adobe, but they make it very difficult to find.

You could also change the settings in your router to disable Adobe Reader’s access to the internet. 

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting pelaird, reply 2

Time to find a new PDF app. I use PDF-XChange which is comparable to Adobe Acrobat. There are many others available. Not sure about compatibility with Windows 7 though.

You could also try deleting Adobe Creative Cloud, but it requires a special cleaning tool which is available from Adobe, but they make it very difficult to find.

You could also change the settings in your router to disable Adobe Reader’s access to the internet. 

Yep, there's "SumatraPDF" as an alternative...got that.

Also have systematically blocked everything to do with Adobe updating...but apparently it resets if you reboot [seems they are violating all sorts of legal restrictions].

I have a current functional cure to it and I often go months without reboot and am monitoring their forum for when they are hit by class action and actually get off their arses and do the right thing.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 3

Also have systematically blocked everything to do with Adobe updating...but apparently it resets if you reboot [seems they are violating all sorts of legal restrictions].

If you're giving Connection Explorer a try, you can block that Adobe connection via it...might it turn the trick? SumatraPDF is a good alternative to Adobe. PDFGear is a useful app to have. It converts file types and also is an excellent pdf editor.

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Reply #5 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

I haven't been using Adobe PDF for years now. I don't like Adobe's business practices. I've been using SumatraPDF instead. It remembers what PDFs I have opened and where I was for each. It automatically opens all of them (except those I've closed) every time I use it.

Reply #6 from Stardock.net Forums Top

Well, they've posted a 'fix' for the issue, and my system hack seems to be holding anyway.

That makes them marginally better than Microsoft who clearly does not give a damn about environmental waste management.

In any other industry that wasn't an effective monopoly they would be commercially screwed for doing what they did.