Actobat 8.0 Pro Closes Automatically

Hello Mr. Moran,

I have a licensed version of Acrobat 8 Pro which I am running on a Vista home premium 2 GB Ram Machine. Till yesterday it was working just fine. But now the problem is any pdf is open for 8-10 seconds and closes by itself. I have no idea how to get this sorted out. Can you make a suggestion?

I had the same problem. Found out it was because I had run msconfig and unchecked "Flexnet Licensing Service" under services. I simply ran msconfig again, rechecked it, problem solved.

Problem has been resolved by Adobe support.
THanks

@palemrvw: try my solution, posted above (3 posts before yours)
let us know

Must be expensive, running on your Visa

Anyway... you don't post enough DETAILS for anyone to help

You need the EXACT versions of what you are running

Also... did you click the Show All Messages command and read all of the messages in this thread to see if some of the other ideas might help you?

I have the very same issue - no error message at all, just closes after 10 seconds. I am running Visa. The only way I can read the pdf file is to open it, then do a quick print before it closes. I worked with Dell for 2 hours on Saturday. They were unable to determine what was going on. I even uninstalled and then re-installed, what a pain. Same problem, shuts down after 10 seconds.
Anyone have a fix?

THANK YOU Jackie Johnson - 6:53am Apr 14, 08 PST (#266 of 267)

OMFG, I've been on this for a few DAYS now and thanks to you, problem FIXED. I should have known to look at the dir of the service when I got the "Error 2: The system cannot find the file specified". Again, THANK YOU!!! - Ray

My Adobe Pro 8.1.2 on Vista Business started closing after 10 seconds today. Why? Don't know. I renamed the C:\users...\FlexNet folder as suggested in post #263 and it seems to have worked for now. It forced Acrobat to activate itself again. I was not able to force an activation because the activation option was grayed out on Help-About. The Flexnet licensing service was running and acrotray was checked and it still closed itself. Seems to be an activation issue, maybe compounded by a Microsoft patch...

SOLVED!

the problem was the FLEXnet service that wasn't up and running. why?

ran services.msc, looked for flexnet and noticed that the process path had a minus (-) in front of it, e.g.:

-"C:\Programs..."

(strange is it?)

all i did was running regedit and looking for the string: -"C:\
found one, removed the minus, closed regedit.

ran again services.msc and started the flexnet service.
NO MORE 10SEC CRASHES!

tell if it worked for you too!

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