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Old October 15th 15, 10:02 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Peter Jason
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Default "Acrobat failed to send a DDE command".

Win10 pro, Acrobat XIpro, Acrobat Reader.

"Acrobat failed to send a DDE command".

Suddenly I get this message when I try to start Acrobat, either
directly or from a file.

Is there any fix? Peter
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Old October 15th 15, 11:04 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Good Guy[_2_]
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Default "Acrobat failed to send a DDE command".

On 15/10/2015 22:02, Peter Jason wrote:
Acrobat failed to send a DDE command



You need to launch acrobat in safe mode by doing something like this:

1) Press and hold down *shift* and *double click* the *acrobat icon* and
then open a pdf file.

2)If it opens without crashing then you know you have a faulty plug in.

When you have established that you have a defective pluin, you need to
locate it and remove it from your installed plug-ins folder. You will
need to post on Adobe forums to ask them how to uninstall a defective
plugin.

https://forums.adobe.com/community/acrobat

Good luck.



  #3  
Old October 15th 15, 11:06 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Good Guy[_2_]
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Default "Acrobat failed to send a DDE command".

On 15/10/2015 22:02, Peter Jason wrote:
Win10 pro, Acrobat XIpro, Acrobat Reader.

"Acrobat failed to send a DDE command".

Suddenly I get this message when I try to start Acrobat, either
directly or from a file.

Is there any fix? Peter


Also try the suggestions given he

https://answers.acrobatusers.com/DDE-command-q115464.aspx



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Old October 16th 15, 12:09 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Peter Jason
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Default "Acrobat failed to send a DDE command".

On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 23:04:20 +0100, Good Guy
wrote:

On 15/10/2015 22:02, Peter Jason wrote:
Acrobat failed to send a DDE command



You need to launch acrobat in safe mode by doing something like this:

1) Press and hold down *shift* and *double click* the *acrobat icon* and
then open a pdf file.

2)If it opens without crashing then you know you have a faulty plug in.

When you have established that you have a defective pluin, you need to
locate it and remove it from your installed plug-ins folder. You will
need to post on Adobe forums to ask them how to uninstall a defective
plugin.

https://forums.adobe.com/community/acrobat

Good luck.


Thanks, I'll check this out.
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Old October 16th 15, 09:48 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Peter Jason
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Default "Acrobat failed to send a DDE command".

On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 23:06:28 +0100, Good Guy
wrote:

On 15/10/2015 22:02, Peter Jason wrote:
Win10 pro, Acrobat XIpro, Acrobat Reader.

"Acrobat failed to send a DDE command".

Suddenly I get this message when I try to start Acrobat, either
directly or from a file.

Is there any fix? Peter


Also try the suggestions given he

https://answers.acrobatusers.com/DDE-command-q115464.aspx


Thanks. Before trying all the fixes, I did a 2 week-old system
restore and this fixed it. I'll have to reinstall some small
programs and I'll watch them carefully.

God bless System Restore!
  #6  
Old October 16th 15, 04:36 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Char Jackson
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Default "Acrobat failed to send a DDE command".

On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 19:48:09 +1100, Peter Jason wrote:

On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 23:06:28 +0100, Good Guy
wrote:

On 15/10/2015 22:02, Peter Jason wrote:
Win10 pro, Acrobat XIpro, Acrobat Reader.

"Acrobat failed to send a DDE command".

Suddenly I get this message when I try to start Acrobat, either
directly or from a file.

Is there any fix? Peter


Also try the suggestions given he

https://answers.acrobatusers.com/DDE-command-q115464.aspx


Thanks. Before trying all the fixes, I did a 2 week-old system
restore and this fixed it. I'll have to reinstall some small
programs and I'll watch them carefully.

God bless System Restore!


I've never understood the affection for a mechanism that makes unannounced
changes to a PC.

  #7  
Old October 17th 15, 12:32 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Peter Jason
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Default "Acrobat failed to send a DDE command".

On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 10:36:00 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 19:48:09 +1100, Peter Jason wrote:

On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 23:06:28 +0100, Good Guy
wrote:

On 15/10/2015 22:02, Peter Jason wrote:
Win10 pro, Acrobat XIpro, Acrobat Reader.

"Acrobat failed to send a DDE command".

Suddenly I get this message when I try to start Acrobat, either
directly or from a file.

Is there any fix? Peter

Also try the suggestions given he

https://answers.acrobatusers.com/DDE-command-q115464.aspx


Thanks. Before trying all the fixes, I did a 2 week-old system
restore and this fixed it. I'll have to reinstall some small
programs and I'll watch them carefully.

God bless System Restore!


I've never understood the affection for a mechanism that makes unannounced
changes to a PC.

Do you mean System Restore?
  #8  
Old October 18th 15, 03:23 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Char Jackson
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Default "Acrobat failed to send a DDE command".

On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 10:32:43 +1100, Peter Jason wrote:

On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 10:36:00 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 19:48:09 +1100, Peter Jason wrote:

On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 23:06:28 +0100, Good Guy
wrote:

On 15/10/2015 22:02, Peter Jason wrote:
Win10 pro, Acrobat XIpro, Acrobat Reader.

"Acrobat failed to send a DDE command".

Suddenly I get this message when I try to start Acrobat, either
directly or from a file.

Is there any fix? Peter

Also try the suggestions given he

https://answers.acrobatusers.com/DDE-command-q115464.aspx


Thanks. Before trying all the fixes, I did a 2 week-old system
restore and this fixed it. I'll have to reinstall some small
programs and I'll watch them carefully.

God bless System Restore!


I've never understood the affection for a mechanism that makes unannounced
changes to a PC.

Do you mean System Restore?


Yes, of course. System Restore is a case where the cure is worse than the
disease. It's one of the very first things I disable on each new PC, along
with UAC and a few other things.

  #9  
Old October 19th 15, 05:01 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Peter Jason
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Default "Acrobat failed to send a DDE command".

On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 09:23:51 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 10:32:43 +1100, Peter Jason wrote:

On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 10:36:00 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 19:48:09 +1100, Peter Jason wrote:

On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 23:06:28 +0100, Good Guy
wrote:

On 15/10/2015 22:02, Peter Jason wrote:
Win10 pro, Acrobat XIpro, Acrobat Reader.

"Acrobat failed to send a DDE command".

Suddenly I get this message when I try to start Acrobat, either
directly or from a file.

Is there any fix? Peter

Also try the suggestions given he

https://answers.acrobatusers.com/DDE-command-q115464.aspx


Thanks. Before trying all the fixes, I did a 2 week-old system
restore and this fixed it. I'll have to reinstall some small
programs and I'll watch them carefully.

God bless System Restore!

I've never understood the affection for a mechanism that makes unannounced
changes to a PC.

Do you mean System Restore?


Yes, of course. System Restore is a case where the cure is worse than the
disease. It's one of the very first things I disable on each new PC, along
with UAC and a few other things.


If I disable the UAC, does this give me ground-level administrator
privileges; that is does everything then open "as administrator"?
  #10  
Old October 19th 15, 05:24 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Char Jackson
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Default "Acrobat failed to send a DDE command".

On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 15:01:43 +1100, Peter Jason wrote:

On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 09:23:51 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 10:32:43 +1100, Peter Jason wrote:

On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 10:36:00 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 19:48:09 +1100, Peter Jason wrote:

On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 23:06:28 +0100, Good Guy
wrote:

On 15/10/2015 22:02, Peter Jason wrote:
Win10 pro, Acrobat XIpro, Acrobat Reader.

"Acrobat failed to send a DDE command".

Suddenly I get this message when I try to start Acrobat, either
directly or from a file.

Is there any fix? Peter

Also try the suggestions given he

https://answers.acrobatusers.com/DDE-command-q115464.aspx


Thanks. Before trying all the fixes, I did a 2 week-old system
restore and this fixed it. I'll have to reinstall some small
programs and I'll watch them carefully.

God bless System Restore!

I've never understood the affection for a mechanism that makes unannounced
changes to a PC.
Do you mean System Restore?


Yes, of course. System Restore is a case where the cure is worse than the
disease. It's one of the very first things I disable on each new PC, along
with UAC and a few other things.


If I disable the UAC, does this give me ground-level administrator
privileges; that is does everything then open "as administrator"?


No, it mostly just stops the nags that everyone blindly clicks through.

Oh, it also lets you store files in the root of C:\, in case that's
important to you.

  #11  
Old October 19th 15, 01:44 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
A.M
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Default "Acrobat failed to send a DDE command".

On 2015-10-19 12:01 AM, Peter Jason wrote:
On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 09:23:51 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 10:32:43 +1100, Peter Jason wrote:

On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 10:36:00 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 19:48:09 +1100, Peter Jason wrote:

On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 23:06:28 +0100, Good Guy
wrote:

On 15/10/2015 22:02, Peter Jason wrote:
Win10 pro, Acrobat XIpro, Acrobat Reader.

"Acrobat failed to send a DDE command".

Suddenly I get this message when I try to start Acrobat, either
directly or from a file.

Is there any fix? Peter

Also try the suggestions given he

https://answers.acrobatusers.com/DDE-command-q115464.aspx


Thanks. Before trying all the fixes, I did a 2 week-old system
restore and this fixed it. I'll have to reinstall some small
programs and I'll watch them carefully.

God bless System Restore!

I've never understood the affection for a mechanism that makes unannounced
changes to a PC.
Do you mean System Restore?


Yes, of course. System Restore is a case where the cure is worse than the
disease. It's one of the very first things I disable on each new PC, along
with UAC and a few other things.


If I disable the UAC, does this give me ground-level administrator
privileges; that is does everything then open "as administrator"?


As far as I know, it does. Don't disable it though; UAC is one of the
smartest things Microsoft added to Windows in years. I'd force people to
enter their full password rather than just press OK myself, but it'll
do. At least a person is alerted to the fact that something is
requesting Administrative access before clicking OK.


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A.M
 




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