Adobe reader DC constantly crashing, Nov 2019

Hi,

I apologize. I read too fast an assumed that you were using Adobe Acrobat Pro; no need for subscription or CC Desktop app.

• For your Windows 8.1 I think you can safely try to disable Data Execution Prevention for all Programs in your Windows 8. Also disable automatic updates for Windows 8 as it seems that it doesn't get anymore support and smetimes it gets stuck downloading large installation files to migrate to Windows 10.

The link that you provided is supposed to work but in this case, if you notice in the link that you are using it also seems to install a few other items silently, like, the Chrome extension, for example. I don't think that using this installation method allows you to manually have control of what really needs to be installed (but this is a guess, I might be wrong).

• So instead, Please try the following link and download the full offline installer from here: https://get.adobe.com/reader/enterprise/

After you successfully complete the installation there should be no need to use the Program Compatibility Troublsehooter but, nevertheless, is always good to run it once and let the wizard detect, download and install .Net dependencies.

• Check the admin guide if you need to disable/enable/modify certain installation customizations: https://www.adobe.com/devnetdocs/acrobatetk/tools/AdminGuide/properties.html

• Alternatively, you can download from here too: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/AcrobatDC/1902120049/

• Once you've successfully install your Acrobat Readr, You can also manually install the latest update from here: https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/ReleaseNotesDC/index.html  or here: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/AcrobatDC/1902120056/