“Adobe Acrobat Reader has encountered a problem with the Windows 10 print spooler. Please restart the spooler service or restart your computer.”
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Then she discovered the true ghost: Windows 10’s Fast Startup feature. When she shut down her PC, Windows hibernated the kernel, including corrupted handles from Acrobat. The only fix was to hold Shift while clicking “Shut down” to force a full cold boot. “Adobe Acrobat Reader has encountered a problem with
It is fragile. It is unsupported. It is, she knows, a digital house of cards. One day, a USB drive with a corrupted PDF, a stray Windows 10 crash, or a failing hard drive will shatter the equilibrium. When she shut down her PC, Windows hibernated
In desperation, she opened the Task Manager and looked at the “Details” tab. There were three instances of AcroRd32.exe running, even though she had closed all PDFs. One was hung on a thread named PDFL.dll . She killed them manually.
She restarted Windows 10. The problem persisted.