Evil Adobe (2)
Thanks to everyone for the helpful comments. I followed the suggestions to install Foxit, and the one for the Firefox extension.
Uninstalling Adobe Reader was apparently easy enough, but it did not remove a number of registry entries. I used a registry cleanup tool to find them (did I get them all I wonder?).
The computer has not yet become unresponsive, except for MS Word, which takes an age to save or open if there are any network drives mapped. Yes, I know, MS say I should unmap network drives to overcome this, but WTF? Only M$ Office queries the network for minutes between every menu click changing directories if any mapped drive is disconnected. Open Office doesn't do this, so I only use MS Word if cornered and forced to, and the other computers don't even have it installed (far too expensive).
Uninstalling Adobe Reader was apparently easy enough, but it did not remove a number of registry entries. I used a registry cleanup tool to find them (did I get them all I wonder?).
The computer has not yet become unresponsive, except for MS Word, which takes an age to save or open if there are any network drives mapped. Yes, I know, MS say I should unmap network drives to overcome this, but WTF? Only M$ Office queries the network for minutes between every menu click changing directories if any mapped drive is disconnected. Open Office doesn't do this, so I only use MS Word if cornered and forced to, and the other computers don't even have it installed (far too expensive).