List of original software included with laptop

[Cedarwren]

Greetings,

I have an HP Pavilion laptop. The original software installed was Windows 8 - 64 bit.  I upgraded to Windows 10 Home version when it came available.  I am trying to find if Adobe was included in the preinstalled Windows 8 software package and if so, what  version it was.

I have been on HP's site with no luck.  I thought it was included but I don't have it in my list of current programs.  I would like to find out what it was and then install it from Adobe.

Any help or ideas where to locate this information is appreciated.

TIA,

Michelle

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi, Michelle:

Below is the link to the product specs for your notebook.

HP Pavilion 15-n019wm Notebook PC Product Specifications | HP® Customer Support

It has the list of software that came with your notebook.

I don't see that Adobe was on the list of included software.

If you just need the acrobat reader program, you can download it from the link below.

PDF reader | Adobe Acrobat Reader

[Cedarwren]

Paul, Thank you for the link to the list of software.  I had found a different spec sheet but it wasn't as detailed.  Appreciated the fast response.  

I had been to Adobe in the past and installed the Adobe that saved to the cloud.  At the time it was the latest update.  There was something about it I didn't like and I uninstalled it.  When I went to go back to my prior version of Adobe it wasn't there.  So I was thinking it was a preinstall. 

Thank you for your help.

Michelle

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome, Michelle.

Microsoft Edge will also automatically open PDF files as well, so there isn't even a need to install Adobe.

[Cedarwren]

I have been so bull headed that I stuck with Google Chrome and never gave Edge a chance.  I will do that now.  You may have just saved me some space.  Thanks again.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Anytime.

Glad to have been of assistance.

I have Adobe installed on a couple of old PCs that I upgraded to W10 from older operating systems and Adobe keeps updating so I also have no idea what the original version was when I first installed it.

I initially didn't like the Edge opening Adobe files feature but now I have no problem with it at all, and most of my PC's no longer have Adobe installed.

If I have to clean install Windows on the PC's that currently have Adobe reader installed, I won't reinstall it.