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To: waltherppq
I also feel the same way about Adobe, which is why I plan on continue to use Acrobat 10 Pro for the foreseeable future. Adobe also said the that message would appear for only 3 months, but has continued for well over 1-2 years. You are right, it's all an effort to make the user upgrade to a subscription service, one which takes away options that used to come with 10 or 11.

Glad you found the information useful. If you know of others having the same problem please share that information with them.

Good luck my friend!

56 posted on 01/30/2017 8:45:26 AM PST by ducttape45 (Every Saint has a past, Every Sinner has a Future!)
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To: ducttape45

I wasted more time with faux Acrobat support having Indian names than the sealed retail Acrobat X Pro software was worth. The software installed and activated fine 4 years ago. I never could get a straight answer why it would take Adobe 4 years to flag a bad serial,(which I do NOT believe). I was run in circles and told to seek a refund 4 years after a sale of bona fide software that Adobe has suspiciously decided 4 years later is somehow not genuine. Once years ago I ran across a high quality counterfeit of XP and Microsoft had me send it to them for physical examination, and in return MS gave me a free replacement bona fide genuine software for my trouble. Why doesn’t Adobe offer the same consideration? Because that doesn’t sell subscription upgrades. I advised Adobe support that if the problem was not resolved by Adobe, nag screen deactivation would be accomplished by user intervention and the regedit would be published far and wide. A similar intervention had to be done as a workaround when Windows Update malfunctioned and crashed over half a billion XP computers world wide, which was a 100% Microsoft EPIC FAIL. There is a hubris about big corporate entities that never ceases to amaze, with endless tasking of consumers at bug fixes for crappy resource hogging “improved” user profiling spyware / software that isn’t always any real upgrade. It is frustrating, and “cloud computing” is not my cup of tea. I buy zero “subscription software”. And “automatic updates” are eventually a proven security risk any place they are allowed in my experience.


57 posted on 01/30/2017 10:27:15 AM PST by waltherppq (do turn off automatic updates)
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