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Willi32657786acfh
Participating Frequently
May 5, 2026
Question

Acrobat Processes hanging in Task Manager

  • May 5, 2026
  • 6 replies
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Since 2 months ago we experience something weird with Adobe reader on our hosts.

Users are reporting that PDF files are not opening. I checked that and I found there are a few Adobe processes that running in the task manager.

When killing the processes and reopen the file it start to works.

We tried reinstall and updating a few times to the latest version. Nothing works.

 

Have you encountered this?

How to solve it?

 

Thanks.

    6 replies

    elliott87430305
    Participant
    May 29, 2026

    We’ve been having the same issue for while now. Constantly having users report same issue where they cant open PDFs and killing the processes fixes. Our environment is Vmware (Omnissa) Horizon on Windows 2022 server. 
    Are you also in a virtual environment? 

    Amal Jaiswal
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    May 22, 2026

    Hi ​@Willi32657786acfh  ​@davidjcullie  ​@Mantleloop 

    Hope you all are doing well and thank you so much for your patience while we've been working with our engineering team to get to the bottom of it.
     

    To help them investigate further, could you help us out with a few things the next time the issue happens?
    • If you notice any pattern around when it occurs, a specific workflow, a particular type of PDF, or a certain action that seems to trigger it please let us know. 

    • A screenshot of Task Manager showing the hanging Acrobat processes would be really helpful. If you can, please enable the 'Command line' column (right-click the column headers in the Details tab) so we can see exactly how each process was launched.

    • Lastly, a memory dump of one of the stuck Acrobat processes would give engineering a lot to work with. You can create one by right-clicking the process in Task Manager and choosing 'Create dump file', then sharing the file with us.
     

    Once we have these, our team will be able to dig deeper into the root cause.
     

    Regards,
    ~Amal

    Willi32657786acfh
    Participating Frequently
    May 28, 2026

    Hi ​@Amal Jaiswal ,

    Thanks for your response.

    I have collected the logs using the Adobe diagnostic tool.

    Here is the log ID: 3cc940d0-6da7-444b-8bca-b071df056193

    Also, the option to create dump file for Acrobat processes is grayed out (the option is enabled for other processes).

     

    Hope it will be helpful to solve the issue asap.

     

    Thanks.

     

     

    Meenakshi0101
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    May 28, 2026

    Hi Willi32657786acfh,

     

    Thank you for providing the required information

    We will share it with the product team for further review.

     

    Thanks,

    Meenakshi

    Meenakshi0101
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    May 11, 2026

    Hi All,

     

    Thank you for your patience. 

    The team is currently investigating this behavior and requires the logs for further analysis. Please collect the logs by following the steps outlined in the help document linked here:: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/acrobat-diagnostics.html.  Once you have collected the logs, please share the generated log ID with us. This will assist the team in identifying and reviewing the logs.

     

    If you need any assistance, please don't hesitate to reach out.

     

    Thanks,

    Meenakshi

    Mantleloop
    Participant
    May 6, 2026

    Yep, having this on multiple user computers and no fix. The worst part is that Adobe does not have any articles or any fix for this yet and have been going on for months now. We are just loading Foxit PDF for now, as users can’t work with adobe reader currently.

    Meenakshi0101
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    May 8, 2026

    Hi Mantleloop,

     

    Thank you for reaching out, and sorry for the trouble caused.

     

    We have reported the issue to the team. Once we have more information, we will update you.

    We appreciate your patience.

     

    Thanks,

    Meenakshi

    Meenakshi0101
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    May 5, 2026

    Hi Willi32657786acfh,

     

    Thank you for reaching out, and sorry for the trouble caused.

     

    This is a wierd behaviour. Please confirm if you tried to reinstall the application once. If not, please try and see if that changes anyhting.

    If the issue still occurs, please share some screenshots or video showing what happens. Additionally share the Acrobat Reader and OS verison currently in use. We will get this checked with the team.

     

    Thanks,

    Meenakshi

    Willi32657786acfh
    Participating Frequently
    May 6, 2026

    Hi,

    Thanks for your response.

    As mentioned, I tried to reinstall the application a few times, and it’s not about one host.

    We have updated the version a few times. Currently version in use: 26.001.21529 running on Windows 11 Pro 25H2 (updated with latest Windows updates).

     

    Thanks!

    Willi32657786acfh
    Participating Frequently
    May 6, 2026

    There are multiple Adobe Acrobat processes, and when you close them and reopen the PDF file it starts to work.

    davidjcullie
    Participant
    May 5, 2026

    Yes we have experienced the same issue - contacted Adobe - Support took over my desktop for lengthy period..deleted various files..reinstalled Acrobat twice..reinstalled Creative Cloud..worked Ok for few days but now a few times per day PDF don't open..go to Task manger and close Adobe… No idea how to solve apart from reporting back to Adobe - sorry not very helpful