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My Adobe Acrobat Reader DC will only open in Administrator mode, why?

garryb22030002
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Oct 10, 2017 Oct 10, 2017

My Adobe Acrobat Reader DC will only open in Administrator mode, why?

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AnandSri Adobe Employee
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Oct 11, 2017 Oct 11, 2017

Moving this thread to Adobe Reader  from Document Cloud PDF services

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LEGEND ,
Oct 11, 2017 Oct 11, 2017

Make sure that the user account has permission to C:/Users/username/AppData/Roaming/Adobe

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garryb22030002
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Oct 11, 2017 Oct 11, 2017
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How do I do that?

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LEGEND ,
Oct 11, 2017 Oct 11, 2017
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It's different depending on what exact OS you have.

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garryb22030002
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Oct 11, 2017 Oct 11, 2017
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Windows 10.

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LEGEND ,
Oct 11, 2017 Oct 11, 2017
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https://www.windowscentral.com/how-take-ownership-files-and-folders-windows-10

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garryb22030002
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Oct 11, 2017 Oct 11, 2017
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Tried to do it - the instructions are far beyond my understanding

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garryb22030002
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Oct 17, 2017 Oct 17, 2017
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Printed out the instructions and tried again.  Windows will not allow me to do it.

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garryb22030002
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Oct 17, 2017 Oct 17, 2017
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Which file or folder do I want to have full access to?  Every time I try a different folder or file, at the end Windows says I cannot do it.

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Oct 18, 2017 Oct 18, 2017
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You'll want to find a Windows forum. I'm definitely not the pro when it comes to Windows...

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