Opening PDFs

[Kerry F]

Okay, this is really driving me crazy.  On three computers with Win 7 it is getting harder and harder to open PDF files.  It stalls, says not responding.  I click on the email attachments and save them to desktop, do "open with" PDF.  It's getting worse and worse.  What's up?  It can't be a problem with all three computers with Win 7.  Doesn't do this on my one laptop with XP still.  Are there some new updates with Adobe I need to get or has everyone's PDF software and how they are making PDFs changed?  They are even slow to print once they do open fully with two different printers hooked up to two different computers.

[Kerry F]

Okay, I solved the problem.  I uninstalled Adobe XI and installed 9 and voila no more problems.  I took a bit to find a plain version of 9 without automatically installing Google Chrome that I do not want.But I found it.  No more hangs so far.

[Marge Teilhaber (TILE hobber)]

Good!  I have Adobe X and no problems.  Love Google Chrome.  What do you use?

[Kerry F]

Marge, so you never updated to Adobe XI?  Maybe that's where all the problems are.  

I just tend to not like added toolbars.  Just use plain Google and Firefix and their basic toolbars.

[Marge Teilhaber (TILE hobber)]

Kerry, for some reason the "reply" button does not appear (and I notice this frequently when a thread goes longer than a page), so let me paste this in and then reply:

[[  Okay Marge,   I checked into other readers with your links.  I downloaded the Sumatra and installed it and couldn't get it to work, to open anything.  It changed my PDF icons to the Sumatra icon.  It set it as the default.  Every time I tried to open with it, a window popped up telling me to install it.  It was installed.  I check my installed programs.  But it would not open any files.  So I uninstalled it.  Then I installed foxit.  That gave me that darn Ask toolbar I hate!  So I unintalled the Ask toolbar but it was still there.  The program worked, but I could not get rid of the Ask toolbar when I go to Google or Firefox.   So I uninstalled the whole program of foxit.  Ask was still there.  So I did a system restore to get rid of the Ask toolbar.

Any suggestions???

Thanks  ]]

I don't know what happened to that Sumatra installation but clearly it didn't install properly.  Or maybe Sumatra sucks.  I don't know.  I use PrimoPDF.  I gave you that link so you'd see that others have problems opening PDFs.  And yes, sometimes installation of a program makes it the default for all files of that type but I do know that there's often something to uncheck during installation that prevents that from happening.  Same thing with the add-ons.   I always uncheck that stuff, and I'd bet that you didn't notice it during installation and did not uncheck.  Nobody wants those toolbars or anything besides the program installed.   Go to remove programs in control panel and look carefully and remove all that crap.  You did a system restore to get rid of it.  Did you try add/remove programs first?

[Marge Teilhaber (TILE hobber)]

Also, Kerry, I think you are confusing google with Google Chrome.  I use Google Chrome.  It's a web browser.   I don't remember now but I'm sure when installing it, they offer to install other crap.  It has to be unchecked during installation.

https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/

[Kerry F]

No, I just use Google as my home page and browser and use whatever it has in its toolbar.  I do not want the Google Chrome browser.  But Adobe now does not give you a choice to uncheck the Ask toolbar being installed.  I found a version 9 somehow that doesn't install the Ask toolbar.  I was reading about online it just instals the Ask toolbars or other things now without letting you uncheck them.

[Marge Teilhaber (TILE hobber)]

Just so that we're talking apples & apples, a website such as google.com has nothing to do with our discussion.  Toolbars are an add-on that many installations give the option of installing.  I say no to all of that.    If there's no option to not install, then just go into add/remove programs to do that deed.    In fact, I just went in there myself and removed/uninstalled a few things (after googling them first to check).

[Kerry F]

Google Chrome looks different and functions different than just Google, doesn't it, as a web browser?

[Marge Teilhaber (TILE hobber)]

Google.com is a website whose sole function is to search the web for whatever we plug into the search line.  You need a browser to get to that website.  A browser is software that's installed on a computer which enables us to use the internet.  I use Google Chrome.  Others use Internet Explorer.  Others use Firefox.  

Google Chrome is software for our computers.  Google.com is a website.     Google is a company headquartered in California which owns and runs google.com.  They also own and develop and make available for free to the public their web browser software called Google Chrome.

[Kerry F]

Thanks,

I just use Google and Firefox for browers...................

[Marge Teilhaber (TILE hobber)]

You use Google Chrome for a browser you mean, I presume.  And you use a second browser (Firefox) when Chrome doesn't work properly on a particular website?