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Should I remove Adobe Acrobat Professional?

What percent of users and experts removed it?
5% remove it95% keep it
Overall Sentiment
Excellent
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How common is it?
United States Rank #45,507
Reach 0.0012%

Versions

VersionDistribution
8.1.6 100.00%

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Adobe Acrobat 8.1.6 Professional

What is Adobe Acrobat Professional?

Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional enables business professionals to reliably create, combine, and control Adobe PDF documents for easy, more secure distribution, collaboration, and data collection. Assemble electronic or paper files-even Web sites, engineering drawings, and e-mail-into reliable PDF documents that are easy to share with others using free Adobe Reader software.

About  (from Adobe Systems)

Enable anyone using free Adobe Reader software (version 7.0 or 8) to participate in document reviews, fill and save electronic forms offline, and digitally sign documents. Create Adobe PDF documents with one-button ease from Microsoft Office applications. Windows users can also create Adobe PDF documents from Outlook, ...  Read more

Overview

Upon installation and setup, it defines an auto-start registry entry which makes this program run on each Windows boot for all user logins. The program adds a toolbar to Microsoft Internet Explorer. The main program executable is acrobat.exe. The software installer includes 41 files. AdobeUpdater.dll is the automatic update component of the software designed to download and apply new updates should new versions be released.

Program detailsProgram details

URL: www.adobe.com
Help link: www.adobe.com/support/main.html
Installation folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 8.0\
Uninstaller: msiexec /I {AC76BA86-1033-0000-7760-000000000003}
Language: English (United States)

Program filesFiles installed by Adobe Acrobat 8.1.6 Professional

Program executable:acrobat.exe
Name:Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat 8.1
Signed by:Adobe Systems
Path:C:\Program Files\adobe\acrobat 8.0\acrobat\acrobat.exe
MD5:9bb7d80f752d9aba168f7795a5ffa7f6
Adobe Acrobat is a set of application software developed by Adobe Systems to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF).
Additional files:
  • Acrotray.exe - AcroTray - Adobe Acrobat Distiller helper application. (AcroTray)
  • asneu.dll - AsnEndUser Dynamic Link Library
  • Acrodist.exe - Acrobat Distiller for Windows (Acrobat Distiller)
  • acrodistdll.dll
  • adistres.dll
  • ahclient.dll - AdobeHelp Dynamic Link Library (Adobe Help Client Library)
  • adobe_personalization.dll - Adobe EPIC Personalization (Adobe EPIC Personalization DLL)
  • AcroIEFavClient.dll - Adobe PDF Toolbar for IE (Adobe PDF Toolbar for Internet Explorer)
  • AdobeLinguistic.dll - Adobe Linguisitc Library (Linguistic Library)
  • adobe_registration.dll - Adobe EPIC Registration (Adobe EPIC Registration DLL)
  • AdobeUpdater.dll - Adobe Updater Library
  • AcroIF.dll - Adobe PDF IFilter (PDF IFilter)
  • AdobePDFL.dll - Adobe PDF Library
  • adobe_eula.dll - Adobe EPIC EULA (Adobe EPIC EULA DLL)
  • AXE8SharedExpat.dll - AXE8SharedExpat (AXE Shared EXPAT (UTF-8 native))
  • Acrobat.dll - Adobe Acrobat (Adobe Acrobat 8.1)
  • Acrobat_sl.exe - Adobe Acrobat SpeedLauncher
  • AcrobatInfo.exe - Adobe Acrobat 8.0
  • Acrofx32.dll - Lotus Notes Field Exchange Module for Adobe Acrobat
  • Aiod.dll - Acrobat Install On Demand
  • asn.er.dll - ASN Library (ASN Dynamic Library)
  • adobe_epic.dll - Adobe EPIC (Adobe EPIC DLL)
  • Adist.dll - Adobe PDF (Adobe PDF Helper DLL)
  • Adist64.dll
  • adobe_pcd.dll - Adobe PCD (Adobe PCD DLL)
  • Adobelm.dll - AdobeLM
  • AXSLE.dll - AXSLE (Adobe XSLT Engine)
  • ace.dll - ACE (Adobe Color Engine)
  • AGM.dll - AGM (Adobe Graphics Manager)
  • ARE.dll - ARE (Adobe Raster Express)
  • BIB.dll - BIB (Bravo Interface Binder)
  • AdobeCollabSync.exe - Adobe Collaboration Synchronizer 8.0

Program behaviorsBehaviors exhibited

Internet Explorer BHO
  • AcroIEFavClient.dll is installed in Internet Explorer as a BHO (Browser Helper Object) under the name 'Adobe PDF Conversion Toolbar Helper' with the class of {AE7CD045-E861-484f-8273-0445EE161910}.
Internet Explorer Bar
  • AcroIEFavClient.dll installs an Explorer Bar in Internet Explorer called 'Adobe PDF' with a class of {182EC0BE-5110-49C8-A062-BEB1D02A220B}.
Internet Explorer Toolbar
  • AcroIEFavClient.dll is loaded as Internet Explorer Toolbar with the name 'Adobe PDF' with the class of {47833539-D0C5-4125-9FA8-0819E2EAAC93}.
Internet Explorer Web Browser
  • AcroIEFavClient.dll installs an IE Web Browser in Internet Explorer named 'Adobe PDF' with a class of {47833539-D0C5-4125-9FA8-0819E2EAAC93}.
Startup File (All Users Run)
  • Acrotray.exe is loaded in the all users (HKLM) registry as a startup file name 'Acrobat Assistant 8.0' which loads as "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 8.0\Acrobat\Acrotray.exe".

Program resource utilizationResource utilization averages

acrobat.exe
Memory:99.2 MB
21.09 MB average
Total CPU:0.0017137517%
0.031193% average
Kernel CPU:0.00110198%
0.016088% average
User CPU:0.00061177%
0.015104% average
Switches/sec:261
70 average
I/O reads/min:32.36 KB
435.61 KB average
I/O writes/min:55 Bytes
105.02 KB average

How do I remove Adobe Acrobat Professional?

You can uninstall Adobe Acrobat Professional from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.
  1. On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:
    • Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall a Program.
    • Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.
  2. When you find the program Adobe Acrobat 8.1.6 Professional, click it, and then do one of the following:
    • Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall.
    • Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).
  3. Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove Adobe Acrobat Professional.

How do I reset my web browser?

If your web browser homepage and search settings have been modfied by Adobe Acrobat 8.1.6 Professional you can restore them to their previous default settings.
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OS VERSIONS
Win 7 (SP1) 38%
Win 10 13%
 
HOW IT STARTS
Automatically starts? Yes
(Found in the run registry)
 
USER ACTIONS
Uninstall it 5%
Keep it 95%

Windows OS versionsWindows

Which Windows OS versions does it run on?
Windows 7 37.50%
Windows XP 29.17%
Windows Vista 20.83%
Windows 10 12.50%
Which OS releases does it run on?
Windows 7 Home Premium 22.73%
Microsoft Windows XP 22.73%
Windows Vista Home Premiu... 13.64%
Windows 7 Professional 9.09%
Windows 10 Home 9.09%
Windows Vista Ultimate 4.55%

Distribution by countryGeography

60.00% of installs come from the United States
Which countries install it?
  United States 60.00%
  Italy 10.00%
  Spain 6.67%
  Australia 3.33%
  New Zealand 3.33%
  Romania 3.33%
  Netherlands 3.33%
  Germany 3.33%
  Canada 3.33%
  BG 3.33%

OEM distributionPC manufacturers

What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?
Hewlett-Packard 18.18%
Lenovo 18.18%
Dell 13.64%
Toshiba 13.64%
Sahara 9.09%
Sony 9.09%
MSI 4.55%
Acer 4.55%
American Megatrends 4.55%
Intel 4.55%
Common models
TOSHIBA PORTEGE R700 5.26%
TOSHIBA PORTEGE M400 5.26%
Sony VGN-FZ21M 5.26%
Sony VGN-FE41Z 5.26%
Packard Bell EasyNote TJ7... 5.26%
Micro-Star MSI Notebook M... 5.26%

About Adobe Systems

Adobe Systems Incorporated is computer program company focused on the creation of multimedia & creativity program products, with a more-recent foray towards rich Net application program development.
Publisher URL: www.adobe.com

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