Adobe Acrobat 9 fails to be installed as part of Adobe Creative Suite 4 on Windows XP 64-bit, Windows Vista 64-bit and Windows 2003 Server 64-bit.

When you print to a postscript print driver, including the AdobePDF printer, the application you are printing from sometimes fails unexpectedly or creates invalid results on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Server 2008.

When you install Adobe Acrobat 8.1 or later or Adobe Reader 8.1 or later on Windows Vista, you see the following error message during the installation process and the installation fails:

Error 1935. An error occurred during the installation of assembly
“Microsoft.VC80.CRT, version = “8.0.50727.163″, type = “win32″, publicKeytoken = “1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b”. processorAchitecure = “x86″.
Please refer to Help and Support for more information.

When you try to update Adobe Acrobat 8.0 to Acrobat 8.1 on Windows Vista the Adobe Updater fails to overwrite the Acrobat custom plug-in. A dialog window with “Replace” and “Change Destination” buttons pops up repeatedly.

When you launch Acrobat 8 on Windows Vista, Acrobat doesn’t respond, or response time is slow for certain functions.

When you install Adobe Creative Suite 3 or individual Creative Suite 3 applications, you get the error message, “Some problems occurred during installation,” “Component install failed,” and/or “Shared components failed to install.” The component that has failed may be Adobe Acrobat.

When you start Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional after installing Adobe Creative Suite 3, you are prompted for a serial number. When entering the serial number for your copy of Creative Suite 3, you receive the following error message: “You entered an invalid serial number. Please correct it in order to proceed”.

When you print to the Adobe PDF Printer from Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista, you see the error message, “Adobe PDF creation cannot continue because Acrobat is not activated. Click retry after activating acrobat to continue printing.”. You can print to the Adobe PDF Printer from other applications normally.

When you install Adobe Acrobat 8 3D on a Windows Vista system that has a previous version of Acrobat installed, you may see a File in Use warning appear:

File in Use: Some files that need to be updated are currently in use.
The following applications are using files that need to be updated by this setup. Close these applications and Click retry to continue. If Retry is not successful, please restart your computer and then run Setup again.
Windows Explorer (Process Id: 3616)
Windows® installer (Process Id: 2284)

If you use Acrobat, there is an update waiting for you. Acrobat 8.1 has just become available as an update through the built-in update function. A download version will be available through Adobe’s website later this month. Keep reading →