Distiller API reference to the PDF printer

Hello,
I was using the Acrobat Distiller API reference to the Adobe PDF printer. The API reference allowed me to eliminate the popup for the pdf name by defining a key that contained the name of the PDF file. This interface worked fine on a Windows XP Pro machine.
So I changed over to Windows 7 (64 bit) and Adobe acrobat (Version 10.1.5) and the distiller API reference not longer
works, I cannot get a PDF file to be created. So does anyone have any idea why the distiller API reference is not longer working on a WIndows 7 (64 bit) machine?

Hello,
Thank you for all of the feedback. It appears to me that I have some choices to make, they are
Have one version of the code for Windows XP Pro.
Have one version of the code for Windows 7 (64 bit)
Update the code to detect the OS and do the "OS specific keys"
Change the output file to something other than a PDF
I am just disappointed that the Adobe Distiller API reference manual did not define/document the differences between the various versions of Windows. I assumed (we know what assume stands for) that I did not have to change my code for a "simple operation" as printing. I can obviously understand the difference between Windows and other operating systems.
So hopefully the next time that Adobe cranks out a Distiller API reference manual they will define the registry keys for each version of all of the operating systems they support. I did it again...I made another assumption...that will come back to haunt me at some time in the future.
Thanks again to everyone who has provided a response to my discussion

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