Installing printer on Acrobat 7

I just installed Acrobat 7.0 on my new computer running Windows 7. I got this error message:
Warning 20225
Adobe Acrobat 7.0 setup was unable to create a new item: Adobe PDF Port_printer. The Adobe PDF printer may be unavailable.
Getlasterror: The operation completed successfully
I tried the installation again in the repair mode and got the same error message. Can anyone help?
Thanks

I am not sure anyone has succeeded in getting AA7 to work with Win7. Some have AA8 running. Adobe will tell you to upgrade to AA9. You might try to run it in the compatibility mode for Win XP, but I do not know if that will do it.

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