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Goose · Sep 10, 2009

While attempting to print out some forms, I found my computer locks up and needs to be rebooted when I try to access PDF files.

My wife's computer will access and print PDF fine, so I did what I needed on hers. Her computer is in a spare bedroom next door to my home office, with a wireless router sending high speed wireless Internet service to it.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Her computer is six years old and mine is one year old. Thanks in advance.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 10, 2009

????? Could it be that your version of adobe isn't compatible with the files you are opening?? Don't think that is the case though, prolly more with your printer. Does everything else print??? Could it be that you haven't cleaned house in a while and have a bunch of junk plugging up your working memory (temp files etc)?

Dave

rhouston · Sep 10, 2009

What printer do you have? Some of the HP drivers do not handle certain PDF files well at all.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 10, 2009

I would suggest uninstalling Adobe and reinstalling the lastest version of Adobe reader.

To do this go to Control Panel/Add - Remove programs and uninstall Adobe Reader.

Then go to www.adobe.com and download the latest reader.

greenbeanman in Kansas · Sep 10, 2009

Sorry topic drift----if you are like me you don't really care for Adobe. Give Foxit a try instead. Loads PDF super fast and I like it better for viewing them as well. No page flipping, instead smooth scrolling, etc.

Freeware version if you don't need to fill out forms is just fine.

TomH in PA · Sep 10, 2009

Are you using Firefox? Older versions of that browser would hang trying to open .pdf files. If so, update to the latest version.

farmer boy · Sep 10, 2009

Are you trying to view them in browser or on adobe acrobat. If in browser try to download adobe and view the files off browser. If you have Adobe but are stll viewing them in browser open Adobe Reader, click edit, select preferences, then options and unselect the display pdf in browser and then try to view a pdf file. Other wise I have no idea.

MarkB_MI · Sep 10, 2009

Are you trying to open the files through your browser? If so, try downloading the files to your disk and then opening them with Windows Explorer or directly from Acrobat Reader. That will tell you if the problem is with your entire Acrobat installation or just the browser plugin.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 12, 2009

I had something similar happen recently. press print and nothing, so I went to Control Panel and L clicked "printer and faxes",R click printer image,list came up with documents in queue, erased all except the last [how they got there ???] closed all windows, hit print and it worked.

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