9.1 freezes if Vista UAC is on.

Running Vista SP2. If User Account Contorl (UAC) is on, Reader 9.1 will open and disply the first page of ducument, then freezes and can only be closed via the task manager. This happens both when running Reader as a stand-alone, or through Firefox or IE. If I open Reader directly rather than by clickiing a file, it locks up right away.
The usual UAC warning does *not* appear. The reader opens fine and then locks up.
This also prevents 9.1 from being removed or updated while UAC is on. It gets almost thru the process, then throws an error message (something about being unable to get something from V8) then stops.
This does not affect Reader v 8. All works OK if UAC is turned off (but then I get that annoying reminder to check my security settings.)
Suggestins?

Turn UAC off and pray that Windows 7 fixes the problem.

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I am having the same problem. The installer crashes when "Publishing product information". I can open iTunes even after the crash and it seems to be working fine, but I get the "install the 64-bit version" error when trying to connect my iPhone.
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Do you have anything against running Windows in a VM (virtual machine) under OSX to do your work? On the unibody, this is much more stable than boot camp in my experience.
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http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/2.2.2/VirtualBox-2.2.2-46594-OSX.dmg
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http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html
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and this screenshot that I took shows just how much you can do with this:
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@ The hatter:
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Ive run Vista 64-bit for two years and use FF daily, alolng with Opera some, IE7 (and now IE8 beta 2).
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Yeah I have Offline Storage set to 0MB, assuming that is the setting you are referring to?
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When I tried to watch a movie or TV show, it would lock up my computer as well. When I tried watching a movie or TV show in iTunes from my iPod instead of my Library though, it worked fine, so it occurred to me to try putting my video files on my external hard drive as well and they now work fine.
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