How to uninstall Foxit Reader - A Step by Step Guide

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How to uninstall Foxit Reader - A Step by Step Guide

1. Go to program files and delete the foxit directory

2. search you computer for 'npFoxitReaderPlugin.dll' and 'FoxitReaderOCX.ocx', delete any copies of them that you find.

3. Install Adobe Acrobat Reader. (now just adobe reader); it will automatically reclaim all associations previously taken up with foxit

4. Install your PDF viewer of choice (SumatraPDF recommended) and set it to be your default PDF viewer. Any association that your PDF viewer fails to claim (because it is not as intrusive) will fall back to acrobat reader.

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Quoting johnworm3,

reply 26

Foxit Reader is my first choice of pdf software.

Look at that, another post that:

1. Extols foxit despite doing such being irrelevant to the discussion.

2. Made by a person who just registered to make this post.

3. Made by a person who has not made any other posts before or after, leaving total post count at 1. What a coincidence.

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Quoting w_dott,

reply 28

Why uninstall Foxit Reader? I never thought that.

Third shill account in a row.

Registered to make this one post, no posts before or after coming in here and shilling for foxit.

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there's an unpatched security hole.

in any case, firefox will soon make pdf readers fairly redundant at least if you like reading them in browsers via plugins anyway..

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never realised libreoffice can open and edit pdf files..... doh

though.. libreoffice does have its own problem. crap autoupdate. crap file association. bit unwieldy for just reading pdf.

foxit nowadays does have an uninstall thing.

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sumatra is great for protable but just as vulnerable as foxit, thought nothing is as bad as adobe!

I always install (for my customers) and recommend NitroPDF which I orgiinally duiscovered when searching for Windows 64-bit-native alternatives YEARS ago and havn't had a single problem EVER...if you ignore my frequent beta testing! very minimalist and properly integrated with major browsers (the lack of love for opera makes me sad but small sacrifice for their wonderful support of IE 64-bit and waterfox) relevant Msft Office components and the Windows printer model

secure it with EMET and you're good to go!!

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