In windows 8 I can't print to an Adobe PDF printer

Upgraded to windows 8 (forced to) and reloaded Adobe 8. Even though it created the printer (PDF) it returns a printer error everytime you try to print to it.

Did all the updates thru 8.1.7. Now it tells me to print the document I need to activate Adobe which I did when I installed it. Under the Help screen the activation tab is greyed out. If I did de-activate it on my old laptop I don’t think it would change the state of this tab.
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