For the archives: Finally found a solution going through the Acrobat Windows user to user forum. It eventuated that I was definitely not alone, and that there is the same or similar thing happening with some Acro Pro 8 installations (which all shut down within 10 seconds without warning).
Anyway, to close the loop, here is the link to the article which contained my fix (solutions 2 and 4 seemed to do the trick): <http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/331958.html> John Pitt wrote: > Thought I'd finished with my Acrobat woes -- but ... wrong! > > I upgraded my work XP Pro laptop and home PC from Acro 5 to 7.08 a > couple of weeks ago. The home PC works fine now (thanks Fred!), but when > I run Acro 7 on the laptop, all is OK until about one minute has passed. > It then closes with no warning or other messages. > > I have searched through the Acro user-to-user forum and the other Adobe > KB articles and have gone through all the possible causes in > "Troubleshoot system errors or freezes", but with no luck. > > I suspect there is some link with system timing on the laptop, because > when I ran with a different login at a different client site today, it > died consistently within about 10 seconds! > > Does anyone have any idea what is causing my problem and how to fix it? > > Specs: Dell Inspiron 9400, 2 GHz Core 2 Duo, XP Pro with all updates, 2 > GHz RAM, nvidia GEForce Go 7900 GS. > > jjj > -- _________________________ John Pitt, technical writer 47 Gottenham St Glebe NSW 2037 Ph: 02 9692 8096 Mob: 0438 92 8096 john at pitt.net.au www.pitt.net.au
