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Problem. With 10.1.4 Acrobat Pro, I followed these instructions, but "Enable Protected Mode" does not appear anywhere on my General tab window. How can you find the setting? DW
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i have the same problem and i have version XI
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DSW, Meghna, and others; In my version, Reader XI (11.0.02) the checkbox for Enhanced Protected Mode has been moved to it's own item on the pick-list on the left in the preferences window, "Security...
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I experienced the same. Even removed and re-installed Adobe to no effect. Did get a message once," Acrobat failed to connect to a DDE Server.", but any advice related to that error had no effect...
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Check if the local services:Network DDENetwork DDE DSDM are running... Had the same problem, both services were disabled, after setting both to automatic and manually starting them the error no longer...
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I don't have these services on my computer!!!
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I too am now having this problem. Acrobat Pro 9.5.5. I don't have Network DDE or DDE DSDM on my computer. I do have Symantec Endpoint Protection, which some other threads on the Interweb have...
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Well, I'm embarrassed. I ran "repair Acrobat" and the problem has stopped (at least for now).
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Killing the process worked for me.
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Killing the acrobat.exe process worked for me as well.
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I have Adobe Acrobat X, I opened services.msc, found Network DDE disabled, enabled it, then started it, along with it's dependencies. Seems to help.
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Killing the process tree seems to be the trick. We're running Acrobat standard 9.2. Killed the process and Acrobat worked like a charm.
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I'll add my voice for what it's worth.Running Acrobat XI Standard on Windows 8 (not 8.1) and this problem randomly began asserting itself. I had seen it before when I was running Acrobat X Pro, but it...
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To follow up on the above, things worked fine after the repair until this morning when it started happening again. I killed the Adobe processes and can open docs again, but damn, what a pain!
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In my case, it turned out to be an add-in that was preventing Acrobat from opening.I found which one was the problem from the Event Viewer.HTH
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I had the same issue with Reader XI on Win 8.1 Symantec EndPoint SecurityIn my case it fixed disabling thanks to who posted this:Protected Mode from Edit>Preferences>Security (Enhanced).
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I found a great solution - switched to FoxIt Reader. Smaller, Faster, Better. Au revoir Acrobat!
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Take a bow @arielkirsman
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Have the same issue. I am trying to copy a video from the SD card onto a thumb drive. When I tried 'import' the files, I am getting that same fatal error message of 'Acrobat failed to connect to dde...
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I have a user that is using Windows 10. She has the adobe suite (everything is updated). Any time she tries to open a ,pdf to view it, she is getting an error message: acrobate failed to connect to...
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