Acrobat CS4 Installaton Failed (EASY SOLUTION)

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Hi There
I've read that many people are having this issue, having just experienced it myself, I also noticed some ludicrous solutions involving registry permissions, and installing with admin permissions.
Before you try anything else please try the following simple solution:
1) Uninstall whatever version of Adobe Reader you may have installed
2) Download the latest version
3) IMPORTANT! Make sure the 'Print Spooler' service is running
4) Install Adobe Reader
5) Install Adobe Acrobat
To start the 'print spooler' service goto 'Control Panel/Administrative Tools' and double click 'services'.
Scroll down the list to 'Print Spooler'
Right click and select 'Properties'
Make sure the 'start up type' drop down displays 'manual' or automatic'
Click the 'Start' button to begin the service.
There is no need to install acrobat as an admin, nor is there any need to modify registry permissions, this can cause future issues and security hole where some malicious sites run .pdf ActiveX scripts.
A note to Adobe programmers:
It is possible to run a .cmd script to get the 'print spooler' service state, then initialise it for install, you can then pass the initial state back to a .cmd to leave the service as it was found before the install, after the install.
This would also be helpfull for printing out an error at the end of the install if the service failed to start.

Answer 1

Hi John
Silly me, just trying to help out.
Hope the information helps someone out, It must be difficault making software for operating systems that have never actually been in a state of public release due to bugs.
Makes me wonder how they get away with it!.
I'd love to see an operating system that is designed to be as small as possible and run Apple, Linux and windows software from a single kern :).
Anyway John thankyou for the link, Ill take a peek in a bit :).