Could not get Adobe Digital Editions (curse the stranglehold of acsm on ebooks and this program being the only way to access them on PC) to run on the new laptop. It would launch and then immediately freeze.
After much searching of the internet for answers, and trying proffered solutions found therein, it turned out that ADE 4.5's own built-in cloudness thar was the problem. For some reason, it was trying to summon the ghosts of every book that has been touched by my Adobe ID. Thousands of files in the brand new install's CloudSync folder. Absolute madness.


