Manually Remove Acrobat? – Completely Uninstall Acrobat The Easy Way

Ever since my ant uninstalled Adobe Acrobat from her PC, every time she wanted to right click on any file or folder, she has been getting a pop-up error window. 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 here if possible.
Remove Adobe Acrobat registered files using the command prompt.
Acrobat registers many files with the operating system during the installation. To successfully remove the application, it;s necessary to remove these files. Registered files can be removed from the operating system with the shell is not running.

1. Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete and choose Task Manager.
2. On the Processes tab, select explorer.exe and choose End Process (items on your desktop disappear).
3. Click Yes in the warning box.
4. Choose File > New Task.
5. Under Open, type cmd and click OK.
6. Minimize the Task Manager.
7. Type cd “C:\Program Files\Adobe\ Acrobat Elements” and press Enter.
8. Type del ContextMenu.dll and press Enter.
9. Type cd “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Acrobat\ActiveX” and press Enter.
10. In Task Manager, choose File > New Task.
11. Type explorer.exe and click OK. (Your desktop reappears.)
12. Exit the Task Manager.

Remove remaining registry entries for Adobe Acrobat
You may remove the application registry keys from the registry, if they are available. But you should make a backup copy of the registry before you edit it.Note: Log in to the computer as an Administrator to modify your registry.

1. Choose Start > Run, and type regedit in the Open textbox; click OK.
2. Navigate to one of the registry keys listed below and select it in the left panel; it appears in the registry editor as a folder.
3. Choose Edit > Delete. Click Yes in the Confirm Key Delete dialog box.
4. Repeat steps 1-3 as needed for any remaining registry entries.
5. Remove the following registry entries
6. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Distiller
7. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Elements
8. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat PDFMaker
9. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat

If all these steps seem to be risky for you to take, there is an uninstaller tool that is designed to remove everything installed by Adobe Acrobat. It is Perfect Uninstaller which is able to rip you off useless Adobe software components either through hard drive and registry.

All you need to do is simply to download the Perfect Uninstaller and make it takes effect for a right click uninstall. In minutes, it will have all the leftovers of Acrobat taken off your computer!