Acrobat 8.1.6 stuck in "spooling"

I am using Acrobat 8, with updates up to 8.1.6, on Vista 64 bit with SP2 installed. All was fine until mid week, but now I cannot create PDF files. After add in are installed, all documents get "stuck" in printer spooling. Any ideas what is wrong?

Since the print-to-file apparently works, try printing again without the print-to-file (normal print). I suspect that will hang up the way you have been finding. If so, then use ctrl-alt-del and select the task list. Somewhere in the long list of tasks running in windows should be AcroTray.exe. If it is not there, then go to the Distiller folder and start it. See if that resolves the problem. If so, be sure that AcroTray.exe is in your startup folder.

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