I have just waded through all of those updates 1 at a time and if you un-install KB2917929 it will solve the problem. Believe it or not Microsoft call it a compatibility update!!!!
Adobe Acrobat on Windows 8.1
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Installed adobe acrobat 7.0 pro on windows 8.1 machine. Everything seemed to install correctly but when I try launching the program i get a message:
Acrobat.exe - application error
The applicalication was unable to start correctly (0xc00000fd). Click OK to close the application.
Please help!
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2014-03-06T22:28:00+00:00 Fantastic and it works like a charm.
You do have to go back and TURN OFF your automatic updates as I came down the next morning and it had replaced that update. Now it is set to NOTIFY but DO NOT INSTALL.
Then today I went to upgrade the software on my Xperia Z Tablet (that is Android) and the PC would not let me do it unless I installed the 7929 upgrade. I connected to my LapTop with WIN7 only and the Android upgrade worked perfectly. So why did Microsoft make it so I could not upgrade on my WIN8.1 system without that upgrade/patch? They are up to something!
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Anonymous
2014-03-12T17:39:10+00:00 I have just waded through all of those updates 1 at a time and if you un-install KB2917929 it will solve the problem. Believe it or not Microsoft call it a compatibility update!!!!
Perfect, it worked for me. Lot of thanks.
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Anonymous
2014-03-18T14:00:23+00:00 Thanks a lot for this information, after removing KB2917929, Acrobat 7 Prof worked like a charm. I'm running Win 8.1 32x.
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2014-03-22T01:45:53+00:00 Thanks a lot - I was despairing.