[gui-talk] Difficulty downloading/installing Adobe Reader 8.1

[Laura Eaves]

How can I get rid of the google tool bar? It gets in my way most the time.
Thx.
--le

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Oppermann" <chuckop at exchange.microsoft.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Difficulty downloading/installing Adobe Reader 8.1


Actually, that's not correct, Adobe wants you to use their "Adobe Download 
Manager" tool, which installs as a ActiveX control to download the rest of 
Adobe Acrobat.

Just remember that since it's a free product, Adobe wants you to get other 
software with Acrobat, including their PhotoShop Starter Edition, and Google 
Toolbar, presumably they get a little something form Google for including 
that in the download.

There are checkboxes on two different pages to control whether or not they 
get downloaded and installed.  Clearing those check boxes will prevent 
loading those unnecessary programs.

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
Behalf Of albert griffith
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 2:50 PM
To: 'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Difficulty downloading/installing Adobe Reader 8.1

You were some redirected from Adobe's web site.  There's no active X
required for its installation.

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 11:12 PM
To: GUI-Talk
Subject: [gui-talk] Difficulty downloading/installing Adobe Reader 8.1

I currently use Adobe Reader V. 7.0, and I heard somewhere (the JFW list, I
think it was) that the new version 8.1 was available.

I went to the Adobe site, went to the Downloads page, then to the Adobe
reader page and found the download link for this new version, for Win XP.

When I clicked on it, I got a message asking me to install Active-X. This
isn't the issue. I have heard that you should be careful about something to
do with Active-X, because if you install it once, or install it on every Web
page that asks you to (I forget how this is brought to your attention, but
anyway), it could render your system vulnerable to some sort of virus deal.
But this is Adobe, and I figure they're legit, and if they want me to do the
Active-X thing, that ought to be safe. No?

So I used what I'd learned to do with my newly installed IE7 and access the
Information Bar, where I was able to indicate that I'd accept Active-X. I
thought this went successfully.

but as I followed the directions to proceed with the download, nothing more
happened. It just sort of stalled. No dialogue like you get for most
downloading. I tried it over a few times, to see if I might have made some
error, but it just didn't work.

So I had a sighted friend over this evening, someone very computer-capable
by profession, and asked him to turn off Jaws and try it himself. In some
frustration, he reported to me that the very same thing happened to him, and
said I hadn't made any mistake because I was using Jaws. There just seemed
to be something wrong.

Does anyone happen to know what's up with this issue? It's not an emergency,
and I can go on using Adobe Reader 7, I guess, but considering that Adobe's
been good about developing screen reader-friendly features, I always feel
interested in their upgrades and updates. Knowledgeable advice will be
appreciated. First of all, have I misunderstood some step in the procedure
because i failed to explore the page sufficiently with Jaws?If not, what's
the problem? Anyone know?

Joel

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