Adobe Digital Editions 3.xx installs & runs on Chrome browser ver 38.xx on Windows XP sp 3. Many attempts to install ADE 4.0 on the same system fail repeatedly and generate an error report for dispatch to Adobe. Time consuming searching on Adobe for possible explanation/solution produces nothing (tech specs; release notes; install problems; etc). Initially it seemed that the ADE ver 4 didn't run on Windows XP but Adobe has a guide for download and installation on that OS.
Closest to a possible hint of why it doesn't work is, that ADE 4 must run on IE 10 or higher. I don't have IE, period. Another hint of a problem relates to the information which may be viewed during and following installation of ADE; something appears to be placed in an IE sub-directory and I suspect it should initiate an interaction between IE and ADE at launch of the latter.
What gives? What's the solution (besides getting >IE 10 which probably doesn't run on Win XP)?
Stick with ADE 3.x? And do what when seeking ebooks which need ADE 4, straight out of the Adobe sample library?
