What is making Adobe Acrobat Reader DC keep coming back onto my Widnows
From rdb@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 5 18:24:31 2023
XPost: comp.text.pdf, alt.comp.freeware
What is making Adobe Acrobat Reader DC keep coming back onto my Widnows computer?
I deleted it multiple times using Win+I>Apps>Uninstall
But Adobe Acrobat Reader DC keeps coming back.
I get a message it has been installed.
Who installed it?
I'm the only use of the PC and I didn't install it.
I want it gone.
Forever.
How?
When I press the uninstaller for details it says it runs C:|Windows\Installer\76afbe0.msi
Is that a special Adobe only app in my Windows folder?
It then asks to close the "Abobe Acrobat Reader DC Updater".
Is that the app I need to find and destroy?
If that "Adode Acrobat Reader DC Updater" show up when I
pressed Win+I>Apps & features?
I can open and edit PDFs without the Adobe products,
which I never want to see on my Windows computers again.
Adobe is all over my registry, unfortunately. For example HKLM\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC C:\Windows\Installer\{AC76BA86-7AD7-1033-7B44-AC0F074E4100}\SC_Reader.ico
and so on.
Do I have to kill and destroy every Adobe reference
in my registry? If so, why does Adobe make it so difficult?
What can I do to get Adobe Reader DC off of my PC forever?