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windows vista wants to keep re-installing adobe acrobat 8

I use Windows Vista Basic Home edition. I installed Adobe Acrobat 8. Acrobat works fine, but anytime i try to acess files, open excel, photoshop, word or outlook, a windows window comes up that says "please wait while windows installs acrobat 8. It ties up the memory. Even if i let it go through and "install", it still continues to happen.

I uninstalled then reinstalled acrobat 8 but it keeps happening.

Do you know how I can get this to stop?

Karl Heinz Kremer

Acrobat 8 does not support Vista! I suspect you have to wait until Adobe releases a patch for Acrobat 8 that will make it compatible with Vista.

Joe Rud

Try going here: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.html
If you select "Vista" for the version it looks like it might work. Under system requirements it lists Vista.

Other than that, the lastest info I've heard is at Khkremer states.

Karl Heinz Kremer

Adobe Reader is different from Adobe Acrobat. The link offered by Geisrud points to just Reader.

artella

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This may or may not be okay to post here with this question. I'll add more points since it's getting more complicated.

I went to the adobe site and found out that it requires windows installer 3.1 and vista has 4.0.

So I downloaded windows installer 3.1 and when i try to install it, windows says I don't have enough room. that's not true because i have 122 gigs free on that drive. I don't see any way to tell it where to uninstall th e program or any settings. It just automatically tries to extract and says there's not enough room and then quits.

Karl Heinz Kremer

You are getting this error message when you try to install the 3.1 installer? I suspect that somehow you are getting the wrong error message. Even if you manage to install Acrobat, it will still run with an unsupported operating system, and you'll have no idea about which features will work, and which will not. It may just crash on you every now and then, or it may create faulty PDFs... I don't know what the problems are, and I would not be willing to risk runnning into any of them. I would just wait until Adobe releases a version that is compatible.

Here are some Adobe documents that talk about Vista compatibility:
http://www.adobe.com/support/products/pdfs/adobe_products_and_windows_vista.pdf
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?event=view&id=KC.333780&extid=333780
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?event=view&id=KC.333643&extid=333643

flycomanche

I am assuming you are running Standard or Pro not reader. If so, I am running Standard 8.0 with no problems on Vista Ultimate. There is a work around for installing Adobe that might fix your issue. Suggest you remove Adobe and reinstall using directions at Adobe forum:
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.ee6b2f2/
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bc36122
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bc2dbf7/5

Be sure to go to Data1 Cab file and make sure .dll file is available if not rename it. Forum search for Vista install issue was helpful for me.
Good luck....

Joe Rud

>Adobe Reader is different from Adobe Acrobat. The link offered by Geisrud points to just Reader

Sorry, I misread the question.

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artella

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andyschouten: thank you! I'm sorry i took so long to reply. I've been trying the various solution suggestions as I had time, and I just downloaded SDK tonight and it worked!!! My annoyance is gone.