January 27th, 2009
Ever since I uninstalled Adobe Acrobat 8 from my PC, every time I wanted to right click on any file or folder, I have been getting this pop-up window below (see screenshot).
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The reason for this problem was because when you uninstall Adobe Acrobat, it doesn’t fully uninstalls itself; usually there will be some registry entries, broken files, empty folders… etc left on your PC. In order to solve the problem, you have to remove these files and registry entries manually as recommended by
Adobe themselves here. But that’s a long, hassle way to do it. I needed a “one-click” solution if possible ;)
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Solution
Windows Installer CleanUp Utility did the trick for me. After I installed this tool, I was able to see the Adobe Acrobat in the list and successfully removed it with one click.
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Windows Installer CleanUp is a utility to remove installation information for programs
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