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Tried to up grade when I was asked to a while ago and when I did nothing would work, so I uninstalled the old adobe reader and tried again and got the message " no valid sequence could be found for the set of patches" the download continues and says it has installed but it hasent. everything I use needs adobe reader for me to see statment's etc so I cant get any thing to work I tried removing everything I could belonging to adobe and tried to install again but this just keeps happening. im running on windows xp 32 bit its just a home computer.
Please can you help me.
You may want to try this before resorting to manual registry editing:
http://support.microsoft.com/mats/Program_Install_and_Uninstall
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Try downloading the full installer from http://get.adobe.com/reader/direct/ or http://get.adobe.com/reader/enterprise/
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I have the same issue. Downloading the full installer resulted in the same error meassage.
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The following article while old fixed the issue for me. Registry editing is required so please backup your registry before making any changes.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913754
A reboot was required before reinstall of Reader succeeded.
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You may want to try this before resorting to manual registry editing:
http://support.microsoft.com/mats/Program_Install_and_Uninstall
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This solution worked for me. Thanks.
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Didn't work for me. The Troubleshooter didn't find any problems. But the Correct Answer was 12 years ago!