Dear Asker,

(Start Menu/Control Panel/Add or Remove Programs) and find Adobe Reader, Click change\remove (Assuming you are the administrator)

Now be advised, removing Adobe reader will cause you to no longer be able to open PDF's, if this function is crucial to your home or business i would advise against its removal.

Hope this helps

I am unable to remove adobe reader 9 from the add/remove programs utility.

I keep getting the message:

The installation source for this product is unavailable. Verify that the source exists and that you can access it.

I have administrator priveleges.

I tried deleting individual Adobe folders/files from the Program files but some access is denied.

Now I cannot install Adobe as I get the same error message.

Please inidcate specific steps I need to do.

Thanks

I'm having the exact same problem but I have run the windows utility and still can neither remove nor reinstall adobe.  I was hoping to delete and start fresh with a new reinstall.  Any help?

HOW TO UNINSTALL ADOBE READER 9 in WINDOWS 7

Go to START>MY COMPUTER>C: DRIVE>PROGRAM FILES (X86) "IF YOU HAVE 64BIT">ADOBE> READER 9> SELECT {AERDS-42323-...} "LIKE

THAT LOOK FOLDER" "LOL"> AND THEN CLICK ON "set up".              Your Done follow the instructions and it will uninstalled.

WORKED FOR ME..!! =]

I had a similar problem. Adobe reader 9 would not work and I tried without success to uninstall with the intention of reinstalling it. I tried the usual methods without success.

I then tried to find the original installation file using the Start, Search and "File or part of a File" and entered Adobe Reader. My Os is XP Pro.

I let the search run until it finished. It showed about 100 results, mostly small files, but included was a 42MB file named C;\System Volume\_restore........

I dobled clicked on this file and the Adobe Installer box appeared and Reader was reinstalled successfully.It tried to stop halfway through by showing the usual message about incorrect path but I kept clicking "next".

I am now enjoying using Adobe Reader again.

Why do you want to uninstall it?

I have tried the usual method through Control Panel previously but it won't uninstall Adobe Reader. An error message shows that the path is incorrect.

There are many versions of Adobe Reader in the Adobe file in Programs. As a last resort I will manually delete all Reader version files in Programs, bur I am not sure what effect this will have on my system.

I did as you suggested and the Cleanup Utility got rid of all the trash on my PC including 5 updates of Reader..

I was then able to install Reader X. As you mentioned I had to replace a few Microsoft programs, like Google Earth and use Microsoft Update to download a few updates that had been uninstalled. Everything now is fine.

Many thanks for the advice.