Curse you Adobe!

Its 2015 and Adobe Reader still asks for system restart when it updates itself. It greets you with a dreadful message after every update:

You must restart your system before using Adobe Reader. Click Restart Now to restart automatically.

This wasn't the first time that I got this message and I am not the only one to question this (by the way this question was asked way back in 2011).

So when I got this popup again some days back, I accidentally clicked on "Restart Now". And my PC restarted itself. With me working on 3 different Word documents and 1 Excel worksheet. With a Ubuntu running in my VM. And it didn't even ask me if I wanted to close my open programs. It simply restarted.

I initially suspected this to be a problem with Windows; that it didn't ask me to close my open programs. So when today I got a couple of updates for my Windows, it again asked me for a restart. This time I opened up a Word document tried to restart to finish installing updates. It showed me message that I have some programs running. I closed my Word document and fired up my VM running Ubuntu. Again the same message.

So it seems to me that Adobe Reader's restart uses some kind of forced restart which does not care about the programs currently running on your PC. And that's why I say —

Curse you Adobe!

Make Adobe Reader XI show scroll bars in Windows 8

If you have Windows 8 laptop with touch screen then you might run into an issue with your Adobe Reader XI like I did. Your Adobe Reader is configured (by default) to detect if you are using a touch screen and if you are then it will not show the scroll bars.

To show the scroll bars by default go to "Edit > Preferences". There select the "General" category and for "Touch Mode" select the option of "Never".