Adobe Acrobat Reader
A way to uninstall Adobe Acrobat Reader from your PC
This page is about Adobe Acrobat Reader for Windows. Here you can find details on how to remove it from your computer. It was created for Windows by
Adobe Systems Incorporated. Take a look
here for more details on Adobe Systems Incorporated. More info about the app Adobe Acrobat Reader can be found at
http://www.adobe.com. Usually the Adobe Acrobat Reader application is found in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC folder, depending on the user's option during install. You can remove Adobe Acrobat Reader by clicking on the Start menu of Windows and pasting the command line MsiExec.exe /I{AC76BA86-7AD7-1033-7B44-AC0F074E4100}. Note that you might be prompted for admin rights. The program's main executable file occupies 4.01 MB (4200856 bytes) on disk and is labeled AcroRd32.exe.
The following executable files are contained in Adobe Acrobat Reader. They take 514.62 MB (
539616912 bytes) on disk.
- AcroBroker.exe (2.14 MB)
- AcroRd32.exe (4.01 MB)
- AcroRd32Info.exe (32.90 KB)
- AcroTextExtractor.exe (50.91 KB)
- ADelRCP.exe (370.41 KB)
- ADNotificationManager.exe (339.90 KB)
- AdobeCollabSync.exe (33.07 MB)
- AdobeGenuineSlimInstaller.exe (781.05 KB)
- arh.exe (84.66 KB)
- Eula.exe (110.90 KB)
- FullTrustNotifier.exe (213.51 KB)
- LogTransport2.exe (840.95 KB)
- reader_sl.exe (36.40 KB)
- wow_helper.exe (131.40 KB)
- RdrCEF.exe (2.72 MB)
- RdrServicesUpdater.exe (228.71 MB)
- AcroLayoutRecognizer.exe (14.50 KB)
- WCChromeNativeMessagingHost.exe (230.41 KB)
- adobe_licensing_wf_acro.exe (3.79 MB)
- adobe_licensing_wf_helper_acro.exe (350.91 KB)
- AdobeFips.exe (3.96 MB)
- 32BitMAPIBroker.exe (108.90 KB)
- 64BitMAPIBroker.exe (285.90 KB)
- MSRMSPIBroker.exe (416.00 KB)
- setup.exe (514.95 KB)
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25.001.20531 alone. You can find below info on other application versions of Adobe Acrobat Reader:
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When planning to uninstall Adobe Acrobat Reader you should check if the following data is left behind on your PC.
Folders remaining:- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC
The files below remain on your disk by Adobe Acrobat Reader's application uninstaller when you removed it:- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Esl\AiodLite.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\PDFMaker\Office\PDFMOfficeAddin.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\PDFMaker\Office\x64\PDFMOfficeAddin.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\A3DUtils.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\ACE.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroBroker.exe
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroCEF\chrome_elf.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroCEF\d3dcompiler_43.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroCEF\d3dcompiler_47.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroCEF\icudt.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroCEF\libcef.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroCEF\libEGL.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroCEF\libGLESv2.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroCEF\RdrCEF.exe
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroCEF\RdrServicesUpdater.exe
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroCEF\swiftshader\libEGL.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroCEF\swiftshader\libGLESv2.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroCEF\vk_swiftshader.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroCEF\vulkan-1.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroCEF\widevinecdmadapter.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroDunamis.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\Acrofx32.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroLayoutRecognizer\AcroLayoutRecognizer.exe
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroRd32.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroRd32.exe
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroRd32Info.exe
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroRd32Res.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroSup64.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroTextExtractor.exe
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\ADelRCP.exe
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\ADNotificationManager.exe
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\Adobe.Reader.Dependencies.manifest
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AdobeCollabSync.exe
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AdobeGenuineSlimInstaller.exe
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AdobeLinguistic.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\adoberfp.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AdobeXMP.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AGM.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AGMGPUOptIn.ini
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\ahclient.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AIDE.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AIR\nppdf32.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\arh.exe
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AXE8SharedExpat.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AXSLE.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\BIB.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\BIBUtils.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\Browser\nppdf32.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\Browser\WCChromeExtn\WCChromeNativeMessagingHost.exe
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\ccme_asym.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\ccme_base.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\ccme_base_non_fips.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\ccme_ecc.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\CoolType.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\cryptocme.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\DirectInk.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\Eula.exe
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\ExtendScript.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\FullTrustNotifier.exe
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\icucnv40.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\icucnv58.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\icucnv67.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\icucnv69.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\icucnv71.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\icudt40.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\icudt58.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\icudt67.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\icudt67_full.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\icudt69.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\icudt69_full.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\icudt71.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\icudt71_full.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\icuuc67.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\icuuc69.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\icuuc71.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\JP2KLib.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\Legal\ENU\eula.ini
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\Locale\en_US\stopwords.ENU
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\logsession.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\LogTransport2.exe
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\NGL\cefWorkflow\adobe_licensing_wf_acro.exe
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\NGL\cefWorkflow\adobe_licensing_wf_helper_acro.exe
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\ngl_resources\resources\ui\font\ie\AdobeClean-Bold.eot
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\ngl_resources\resources\ui\font\ie\AdobeClean-Light.eot
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\ngl_resources\resources\ui\font\ie\AdobeClean-Regular.eot
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\Onix.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\Onix32.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\OSSLLibs\AdobeFips.exe
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\OSSLLibs\fips-adobe.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\PDFPrevHndlr.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\pe.dll
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\plug_ins\Accessibility.api
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\plug_ins\AcroForm.api
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\plug_ins\Annots.api
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\plug_ins\Checkers.api
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\plug_ins\DigSig.api
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\plug_ins\DropboxStorage.api
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\plug_ins\DVA.api
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\plug_ins\eBook.api
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\plug_ins\EScript.api
Usually the following registry keys will not be removed:- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Adobe\Repair\Acrobat Reader
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\68AB67CA7DA73301B744CAF070E41400
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{AC76BA86-7AD7-1033-7B44-AC0F074E4100}
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader
Use regedit.exe to delete the following additional registry values from the Windows Registry:- HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroRd32.exe.ApplicationCompany
- HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroRd32.exe.FriendlyAppName
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\68AB67CA7DA73301B744CAF070E41400\ProductName
How to remove Adobe Acrobat Reader from your computer using Advanced Uninstaller PRO
Adobe Acrobat Reader is an application released by the software company Adobe Systems Incorporated. Sometimes, computer users try to uninstall this program. Sometimes this can be easier said than done because removing this by hand requires some know-how related to removing Windows programs manually. The best EASY action to uninstall Adobe Acrobat Reader is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take the following steps on how to do this:
1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO on your PC, add it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is the best uninstaller and all around tool to maximize the performance of your computer.
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- download the setup by pressing the green DOWNLOAD button
- install Advanced Uninstaller PRO
2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take your time to get familiar with the program's interface and number of functions available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very good PC management program.
3. Click on the General Tools button

4. Click on the Uninstall Programs tool

5. A list of the applications installed on the computer will be made available to you
6. Navigate the list of applications until you find Adobe Acrobat Reader or simply click the Search feature and type in "Adobe Acrobat Reader". If it exists on your system the Adobe Acrobat Reader program will be found automatically. Notice that after you click Adobe Acrobat Reader in the list of programs, the following information about the program is made available to you:
- Star rating (in the left lower corner). The star rating explains the opinion other users have about Adobe Acrobat Reader, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
- Opinions by other users - Click on the Read reviews button.
- Technical information about the app you are about to uninstall, by pressing the Properties button.
For example you can see that for Adobe Acrobat Reader:
- The web site of the application is: http://www.adobe.com
- The uninstall string is: MsiExec.exe /I{AC76BA86-7AD7-1033-7B44-AC0F074E4100}
7. Press the Uninstall button. A confirmation window will appear. accept the uninstall by pressing the Uninstall button. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will uninstall Adobe Acrobat Reader.

8. After uninstalling Adobe Acrobat Reader, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run an additional cleanup. Click Next to perform the cleanup. All the items that belong Adobe Acrobat Reader which have been left behind will be detected and you will be able to delete them. By uninstalling Adobe Acrobat Reader with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no Windows registry entries, files or directories are left behind on your computer.
Your Windows computer will remain clean, speedy and able to take on new tasks.
Disclaimer
The text above is not a recommendation to uninstall Adobe Acrobat Reader by Adobe Systems Incorporated from your PC, nor are we saying that Adobe Acrobat Reader by Adobe Systems Incorporated is not a good application for your PC. This page only contains detailed instructions on how to uninstall Adobe Acrobat Reader in case you decide this is what you want to do. Here you can find registry and disk entries that our application Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.
Last update on: 2025-06-10 10:54:48.897