Adobe Acrobat Reader is a dirty little bastard, leaving droppings in the park and never cleaning up after itself. On Friday I was having “issues” with Reader not opening. The splash screen would pop up, disappear, and then nothing would appear afterwards. <\/p>\n
Restarting the app just launched another process, so all I ended up with was a bunch of apps consuming memory and cycles, but no window appeared. I removed and re-installed with the lates version, but still no working Acrobat Reader.<\/p>\n
So, like any good geek, I trolled Google<\/a> for answers. I found mine here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sure enough, there were 65,535 temporary files generated by Adobe Acrobat in my temp directory (actually, they were in \Documents and Settings\username<\/i>\Local Settings\Temp). I whacked them and, like magic, Reader worked again.<\/p>\n How annoying, although not as annoying as stupid anti-v policies which require on-demand scanning of any file that is read or written (which makes file deletion times entertaining).<\/p>\n