ADOBE XI has never worked on my Windows 7

Question

i have downloaed and re-installed 5 times..... DEPSERATE!!!

Answer 1

Adobe 11.0.4 locks up after a few seconds of starting and changes to "Not responding" if you attempt to access any item within the welcome screen
At the bottom of this post is the registry fix to stop the lockup.
There is no fix for the situation on certain computers except installing Adobe Reader X instead of Adobe Reader XI. I put two different posts together to create this fix. This is a work around.
Installing Adobe Reader 11.0.1.36 worked without locking up
Installing Adobe Reader 11.0.4 did not. It locked up after a few seconds
Adobe turned on extended pane to be open by default on 11.0.4
Adobe 11.0.1.36 broke when I enabled extended pane or updated Adobe Reader to version 11.0.5.
I figured adobe 11.0.4 might also work if I turned that pane off. It did.
I found how to turn that pane off from another forum that the person simply didn't like that pane starting up.
Now adobe 11.0.5 works as long as that pane is registry disabled.
The strange thing is that I used the same adobe 11.0.4 install on several windows 64 machines with no issues. Certain machines did it.
Things tried that did not work:
Updated java
No java
No adobe JavaScript
No antivirus
No viper security center.
IE to defaults
Trusted sites lowered and adobe.com added
No adobe flash
Temp files all locations cleaned up.
Protected mode disabled
Enhanced security disabled
Adobe cleanup 9 and 10
All adobe folders renamed and adobe registry manually cleaned up.
Automatically update disabled.
Running the EULA.exe and accepting the terms
And a bunch more.
Adobe Reader XI will still lock up if I click anything in the Extended Pane: Tools, Sign, or Comment. Just don't do it and everything works. If you need those features, perhaps Adobe X is for you.
Open Notepad
Put in the data between the "======"
Save the file as    "adobefix.reg"    including the quote marks to the Desktop
Run the adobefix.reg file on the Desktop that you just saved
===========================================================================
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\11.0\AVGeneral\cTaskPanes]
"irightPaneState"=dword:00000000
"iBasicSharePaneStickyStatus"=dword:00000000
===========================================================================
Louis Lopez
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