Ahhh... I was addressing the SUBJECT of the thread.

Yours is a 'special' situation... maybe the full product install gives a perfectly good Acrobat Reader while the download of only it is the problem.

cheers

>Hi, Jim
>
>I can't say anything - I've never used Acrobat Reader. I have the full thing.
>
>>Interesting... I installed Acrobat Reader 7.0 on a new PC running XP Pro SP2 and it simly wouldn't work.
>>I was in a rush, so copied a prior download from another machine of version 5 and it runs fine.
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>>cheers
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