Wrong file download, library books can bring them on computer

After having used it with happiness ADE to load books from library on my computer for 2 years, I went and he screwed up.  I didn't have a shortcut for ADE on my desktop - the only way I could get was to open Adobe Reader and then via the "help" menu in Adobe Reader, I could go to ADE.  Well, I got tired of doing that, so I've played around with things and found a way out of ADE and make a separate icon on my desktop and start menu.  I thought everything was fine until the next time that I tried out a library book.  All of a sudden when I went to download the book, I got an error message & I noticed that the name of the file where the book was trying to load to a changed from ' adobe digital editions ' something weird, like 'ACS' as well as a few more things.  And it does not give me the option to change to something other than a drow in the menu drop-down or by browsing my files or anything like that.  I am still able to enter in ADE & use it for books that I have already downloaded, just can not download anything again.

Is it possible for me to change it manually to the correct file name?  Is it possible for me to solve this problem without uninstalling and reinstalling ADE?  If I need to uninstall, it is possible for anyone to give me very detailed instructions, step by step, as I agree with the basic principles on computers, but not very good with this stuff.  I'm on Windows XP.  Thanks much for any help you can offer!

Try to reinstall everything, uninstall it and see if that helps.  It should not upset your old books and settings.

As you are on XP, I suggest the slightly older v1.7.2.  (In fact, the new version has so many bugs I suggest the other oldest for everyone.)

  1. Download from http://helpx.adobe.com/digital-editions/kb/cant-install-digital-editions/_jcr_content/main-pars/procedure_2/proc_par/step_0/step_par/download/file.res/digitaleditions.exe
    (see Adobe page http://helpx.adobe.com/digital-editions/kb/cant-install-digital-editions.html for more details).
  2. Click on the file downloaded in your browser (or double click as appropriate to the particular browser) to start the installation.
  3. He's going to ask you a few questions, just take all the easy answers.

With luck, that will make the file association for the .acsm file.

If it isn't, there's a chance that at least passing by the rigmarole you tried above works now.

Good luck...

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