13th
March
2007
Installing Adobe Reader on Vista
posted in Technology |I tried installing Adobe Reader again, downloading a fresh installer from Adobe. At first it didn’t work, giving an error that my temp file was invalid or full. I eventually figured out how to get it to work- you download and run the installer which unpacks your stuff into a temp folder like c:\users\[username]\AppData\LocalLow\Netopsystems\temp\Adobe Reader 8.0\ . At some point Windows security stuff prompts you to run another app. Don’t answer, instead open the folder above in Explorer and execute the “AcroRead” MSI Windows Installer and everything should go smoothly.
Its still pretty amazing that its been a month since Vista shipped and Adobe hasn’t fixed this.