1) I had the original CD which contained 7.0, and installed it.
2) I hit up ms.config from the Run box, and disabled the Adobe acrobat background things from running (acrotray etc).
3) Then installed 7.01, 7.02, 7.03.
4) Opened the task manager in advance
5) Installed 7.05, and as soon as it opened, killed the explorer in task manager.
6) I could not get the run box to appear with Windows>R, so I just did Ctrl/Alt/Del and restarted the machine.
7) Then proceeded to install 7.0.7-9, did one more restart, and all is good.

Nice to know I don’t have to shell out another $200 for acrobat 8 professional, when 7 is perfectly good.

Below, I describe how I set it up. There are 3 other things worth noting.

1. Disable UAC completely in Vista and restart if need be ( I never have UAC on)
2. Download acrobat reader 8.1 fully up to date, for Vista.
I don’t know if this helps, but I had done this and it is not unusual for dll files to be shared, so following may depend upon sharing dlls which are Vista compastible
3. Name the directory something else as adobe love creating directories and it’ll be hard to isolate the 7.0 installtion if you need to remove or step back.

If your original CD version is 7.0.5 or later then read my text and see if you can still use it by switching out explorer during installation.

That done……………

I had a version 7.0 Professional and it requires updates 7.0.1-7.0.3 (minor) downloaded from adobe.com.

There is no 7.0.4

7.0.5 is where the problem lies. This is a major install. Do NOT install through acrobat “update” link, dowload the file from the adobe web site – a google search’ll find it (25MB? from memory)

When you install it gets to a point where it clashes with explorer. Explorer of course is your interface to the desktopand windows so you don’t wanna lose it!!

When the update has started, immediately locate explorer.exe in the application proces slist (via Ctrl+Alt+Delete- Task Manager) and remove it.

Your icons will disappear but don’t worry.

Once 7.0.5 completed, restore desktop by pressing the Windows key and R simultaneously to get “run” and type explorer.exe in the box.

Voila – refresh screen (F5) to check and then you should be able to install 7.0.7, 7.0.8, 7.0.9 (no 7.0.6).

Again, do these by downloading from adobe web site – not through acrobat – u canopen acrobat each time to check it runs and the version number.

That’s it!

I did that and having fully functional Acrobat Professional 7, whichsits alongside acrobat reader 8.1 (and Primo PDF) quite happily.

Hope this helps.

BK

I’ve used it a few times, and it seems to work ok. The reviewers on
download.com mention one quirk related to the interface, but it’s a minor flaw considering it’s a free PDF distiller. However, it doesn’t have the advanced configuration options that come with Acrobat. If you need to do some professional printing with advanced features (e.g., font embedding, overprinting, fat PDFs), you’ll have to bite the bullet and pay for the upgrade.
Good luck.

TRY : http://www.go2pdf.com/product.html

Its freeware + slick, but it puts ad on each file you make.

ENJOY !!!!

It doesn’t like my printer or my version of Acrobat [v.5].

Is Vista better because it hogs so much RAM ?

Any tips ?

Specifically – how do I migrate back to Windows XP ?

Adobe has no intention to update any versions of Acrobat earlier than v.7 so that they work with Vista. If you were a registered user of v.7, Adobe would have sent a free upgrade to v.8 able to handle vista…but if you weren’t on their lists, you are left in the wind.

you can read up on it at:
http://www.adobe.com/support/products/pdfs/adobe_products_and_windows_vista.pdf

I looked at the Microsoft link that drjef provided, you need Office 2007

The quickest way is to go through control panel, user accounts, and on the right of the account names there is a link “Turn User Account Control on or off” click that and you can reverse either way.
-Jef-