Trouble reinstalling Acrobat 7.0 on Windows 7 computer

I had to reinstall due to a registry error.  I am getting the 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."  I did a search for this error, but the solution was not helpful.  What's next?

I guess it is unfortunate you did not backup AA8 to other media. If you have your old XP disks, you could just backup your current system (in case you want to come back) and then install XP over what you have. Unfortunately as new computers come out with the newer systems, they often have items that take advantage of the new OS and will not work with the older systems -- but reinstalling XP might be an option, particularly if you liked it.
You indicated a problem with the printer port. What I was asking you to do was check out various parts to see if there is hope of getting AA7 to work in any way. So the steps are checking the basic AA7 program out to see if it works. The AA7 installation includes Distiller. Distiller converts PS and EPS files to PDF. If both of these work then there is hope of a work around. What likely does not work is AcroTray that simply automates the process of taking the PS file the print driver creates and sending it to Distiller in the background to create a PDF. Assuming Acrobat and Distiller work, then there is hope.
IF the driver was installed (that is why I asked about the Adobe PDF printer), then you may be able to set the printer port to FILE -- use the properties of the printer under START>Printers> and right click on the Adobe PDF printer to set the port.
If the printer driver was not installed, then use the Add Printer in the Start>Printers screen to install one of the PS printers. Once installed you can initially try it out by printing from WORD or such to that printer with print-to-file selected. Open the file that is created in Distiller and see if you get a PDF. If so, again there is hope. To automate things a bit more, enter the properties of the PS printer you just created and change the name to Adobe PDF (that allows PDF Maker to work with the printer) and change the port to FILE (so you don't have to keep checking print to file. If you have problems with some of this, maybe you can get a friend to help.
The alternatives are to purchase a new version of AA XI (you can not upgrade from AA7) or look into one of the 3rd party PDF creation tools. Directing you to specific 3rd party products is not appropriate on this forum.

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