RE: [OT] Adobe Reader 8 and Vista... - an alternative?

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Installed this yesterday and it seems more than OK...

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Dave Sussman
> Sent: 07 March 2007 10:36
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Adobe Reader 8 and Vista... - an
> alternative?
>
> I with you 100% on this; I've just discovered the Foxit Reader
> (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php),
which is free, small
> and fast. No junk.
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Paul Gordon
> Sent: 07 March 2007 10:33
> To: UKHA_D Group
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Adobe Reader 8 and Vista... - an
> alternative?
>
> The thing that *really* annoys me with Acrobat is the way it
"infests"
> various bits of MY machine without so much as a by your leave...
>
> i.e.
> It always creates a desktop icon - without asking me
> It always installs some poxy "speed launcher" crap in my
startup group
> -
> without asking me
> It usually adds itself to my quicklaunch bar - without asking me
> It usually adds some auto-update checking crap to the "run"
group in my
> registry - without asking me
> It usually adds its icon to the top level of my start menu - without
> asking me
>
> And even more annoyingly, it reasserts all this bullsh**t every time
> you
> install one of its updates, so I have to "de-infect" my PC
every time I
> get an Adobe update...
>
> And some people say Microsoft take liberties with your PC!?!?!? -
Adobe
> is just one step away from a virus writer if you ask me...
>
> Grr.... - you managed to find my "annoy" button, and pressed
it...
>
> Paul G.
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