[Self Solved] Problems trying to get the install.exe to run

Question

After trying for 3 days to get the install.exe to run on my new computer I eventually ran out of options. You could see, however, that in the task manager, once you clicked on the .exe that it would run for a bit, max out at ~8k and then disappear. The two things I could think of were that A. It might have been a registry error that is preventing me from running the .exe and B. that it might be a service that is blocking it. I did not want to go through the stress of re-installing windows just so I could get the install.exe to run over a hunch that my registry might be foul. Instead I performed a clean boot that would prevent a service from stopping the installation. Upon restarting I was able to run the install.exe and I finally have adobe reader running. For anyone who is not familiar with a clean boot it can be done as follows:
Pressing [Win] + r OR Start > search
and then typing "msconfig.exe" + enter will open up the system configuration screen.
then click on the "Services" tab, followed by clicking the box "Hide all Microsoft services" so that it has a checkmark inside it, followed by clicking the button "Disable All"
Your computer will then be prompted to restart
Upon launching your windows interface go to your downloads folder and then try to run the install.exe, if it works, as did mine, it would appear that a certain service was blocking it.
Hope this helps the .02% of people who actually have this problem when installing

Answer 1

Alternate solution: use the offline installer from http://get.adobe.com/reader/enterprise/