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I have been using Acrobat 8 Professional for a number of months with no problems.  Then in April we were going on vacation and wanted to do work from our laptop, so I installed Acrobat on the laptop.  On vacation the laptop completely crashed and says it can't find the operating system.  Since then, I've been unable to convert any documents with Acrobat on my desktop.  I later found out that installing Acrobat on the laptop may have caused licensing problems, but because I can't access the operating system on the laptop, I can't uninstall Acrobat.  I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling Acrobat on my desktop, but to no avail.  Anyone have any suggestions?  Thanks in advance!! 

There is no license problem for the situation you are having. Us the Microsoft Installer Cleanup tool to remove all traces of Acrobat in your registry. Then re-install Acrobat. If there is a complaint about having used up your activations there is a specail phone number provided at that time where you can call and tell them what happened. They will give you another activation.

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