Acrobat icon in Windows Explorer is wrong

Hi,
I've got Adobe Acrobat 7 installed, but for some reason the Acrobat icon does not appear in Windows explorer. What appears is the 'unrecognized' program icon. PDF files still open with Acrobat, but I've noticed I cannot use Windows search to search for text strings in the PDF files. I tried reinstalling, installing Acrobat Reader, changing to other program icons and changing back, increasing the icon cache size, but I still have the same problem. I even downloaded and installed a trial version of Acrobat 9, but the problem persists.
Thanks in advance for any help.
-=j

You are talking about 2 different things. Sometimes the icons seem to change - apparently a MS OS problem. Anyway, you can fix the icon from Windwos Explere to going to the TOOLS>Folder Options>file types menu and selecting a new ICON for PDF files.
As for the text search, I think you are talking about the limited search that is the default with MS Win XP and later. There is a flag in the registry you can change to fix this so that XP will search ALL files, not just the ones in their favorite list (i.e. - OFFICE files). I ran into this a year ago after looking for a file I new existed but not being able to find it for almost a year (sometimes I am bad about filing some files). I found the flag and within 2 minutes found the file. You may still have some problems with a PDF since it is a binary file and the information should be able to be seen directly by the OS. You will have to do a search for the flag as I do not remember it.

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