Adobe Acrobat XI PORTABLE & Windows 10

[Guest]

After installing Windows 10 I am not able to open Adobe Acrobat XI Pro Portable (version 11.0.4.63), either from external HDD or from desktop, and even as administrator and after having runned the error fixing option in windows 10.

Any suggestion? Many thanks.

[Test Screen Name]

What is Acrobat Pro Portable? I've not heard of that, and there is nothing obvious in Google. Acrobat must be installed locally.

Also you say "not able to open". What exactly happens? What exact error message?

[Guest]

The version Portable of Adobe Acrobat XI pro does not require to be installed locally. I have installed it on my external HDD and it worked well and regularly over the past 12 months at least,  on many different PCs (Windows XP and Windows 7) which did not have installed locally any version of Adobe Acrobat. In Windows 10 the program simply does not run, either automatically when I try to open a pdf document, or manually, when I try to run directly the program (both ways still work well in prior versions of Windows). When I run the Windows 10 test, it tells me the program is not compatible, No other  error message appears.

Regards.

[Test Screen Name]

Where did you buy that, may I ask? The only reference I can find on the web to such a thing is a pirate hacked copy of Acrobat. This may not be what you are using, however, but it doesn't seem to be what Adobe sell, which has to be installed and activated on each computer - so far as I understand. But I'd love to hear otherwise.

[Guest]

I cannot remember the site where I got it. It happened over 1 year ago.I never thought it was hacked. Now I am very surprised and disapponted to acknowledge that Adobe has released no official portable version of Acrobat: I guess I am not the only person who needs to work over time onto several PCs and therefore needs to have on his external HDD,  some program not routinely installed on all PCs, other than his archive.

I wonder now, and I would like to ask you, if the new Adobe Acrobat Pro DC, which promises an high mobility feasibility, will actually work without being installed locally on all devices, may be in a cloud/web environment? (Publicity of the new program says: "Your office is as mobile as you are",   "Now, you can fill, sign and share PDFs on any device", "Instantly access recently viewed PDFs across desktop, mobile and web", etc.). Do you know this?. Thank you very much for your interest.

[Test Screen Name · Accepted solution]

‌DChas to be installed on each computer. In fact, before subsriptions, Adobe actively stopped portsbility because the software had to be activated on each computer, and deactivated before using elsewhere. they would expect you to buy as many licenses as PCs (well, 2 pc per license). With subscriptions you still install and activate but I hear you just logout to be able to activate elsewhere.

Portable software is very rare precisely because of licensing becoming more strictly enforced. But also Acrobat loads many systemcomponents. I find it hard to figure how a portable version could add shell shortuts, integrate with Office or add a PDF printer...

[ProDesignTools]

Adobe absolutely does not make a "Portable" version of any of its products, including for Acrobat. 

What you have installed on your system is surely pirated/hacked, and therefore you cannot predict what it will do to your computer...  Often, things you don't want.