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aeroncadin
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February 9, 2017
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Uninstalling previous Reader DC versions. (Switching Tracks)

  • February 9, 2017
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Hello,

In my experience, I can easily Install Adobe Reader DC over top of Adobe Reader XI (and previous versions)

However, I would like to switch from Continuous Track to Classic Track - But when I do it manually, it says there is already previous installation and the setup cancels, so I must Uninstall first.

I would like to deploy Adobe Reader DC Classic to an environment silently via SCCM - so for that I'm thinking I would need a list of the possible GUID's that could be in use.  I've come across this: Identifying Existing Installs — Enterprise Administration Guide but it only has some examples, and I have a different guid than what is listed there for an existing DC install, so I'm not sure how many possible ones are out there.

Can anyone help out ?

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    Correct answer Cantor

    I came up against this where some PCs have the Continuous Track version on and refuse to install the Classic Track version.

    I've worked around this by writing a VBScript to parse the Uninstall section of the registry for *adobe*reader and pass the installer GUIDs to an msiexec /x command.

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    CantorCorrect answer
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    January 12, 2018

    I came up against this where some PCs have the Continuous Track version on and refuse to install the Classic Track version.

    I've worked around this by writing a VBScript to parse the Uninstall section of the registry for *adobe*reader and pass the installer GUIDs to an msiexec /x command.

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