How to Remove the FileOpen Plug-In

FileOpen Systems has developed two plug-ins for Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat; one for our Publisher product and one for our WebPublisher product. The WebPublisher plug-in is called FileOpen.api and the Publisher plug-in is called fOpen32.api. To find out which one is on your system, launch your Adobe Reader and select the Help menu > About Third Party Plugins. If "FileOpen" is a choice, you have fOpen32.api. If "FileOpen WebPublisher" is a choice, you have FileOpen.api.

To remove FileOpen.api, please do the following:
1. Close Adobe Acrobat or Reader.
2. Search for and delete all copies of FileOpen.api
3. You may have in the same location as FileOpen.api another file fowpkbd.api, if so delete this also.
4. In some cases you may have a folder c:\documents and settings\<your login>\application data\FileOpen. If so, delete this folder.
5. If you installed via the web, you may have the FileOpen ActiveX control. From IE invoke Tools>Internet Options>General>Temporary Internet Files>Settings>View Objects, then delete FileOpenInstaller.

To remove fOpen32.api on Windows please do the following:
1. Close Adobe Acrobat or Reader.
2. Search for and delete all copies of fOpen32.api
3. You may also have a registry entry that was created by the software. Please contact your administrator if you are unsure about how to remove registry entries. The entry is hkey_local_machine>software>FileOpen.