Help: Crappy font display in Acrobat 9, Windows 7 x64

I have build a new Windows 7 x64 machine. Nice and fast.
Unfortunately, Adobe Acrobat 9.2 is playing up. The fonts in a number of PDFs from different sources do not display correctly; the letters are far too thin and coarsely pixelated. The same files show up correctly on my Vista x64 machine with the same version of Adobe Acrobat.
I wonder what this problem is and if there is anything I can do either in Acrobat or on the system side to get this straightened out
I am enclosing two small files entitled Right.jpg and Wrong.jpg that illustrate nicely what I mean.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Per

Go to Edit\Preference\General...
Or you can just press ctrl + k.
Click on Page display.
Ensure "Smooth Text" is NOT set to "none". So if you have an LCD , set it to "For Laptop/LCD screens".
Ensure that the other check boxes such as "smooth line art", "smooth images" are checked.
You may want to experiement with "Use 2D graphics Accelleration". Turning on can speed up display but can cause some strange effects (such as curves being rendered as a series of short straight lines. Some things look better with it turned off.

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