Can't install downloaded acrobat standard 8.0 on my new Vista Lapt

[DanChestermere]

Hi, i have this new laptop with Vista Home on it. I had installed my acrobat
standard 6.0 on it from cd. I decided i should upgrade to 8.0, so purchased
and d/l from the adobe site. The file comes in zipped. When i try ton unzip
and install, i get the message: "a problem occurred while creating the
destination folder. please check the folder permissions or choose another
folder".. So, i tried to extract into my "Documents" folder rather than to
the desktop and got "check available space and the write priveleges on the
destination folder".

I have tried to enable and then disable the UAC but did not seem to make a
difference.

I don;t know if this is an installer problem, a folder permissions problem,
or an acrobat 8.0 problem, or just a " dumb operator" problem..but would
would appreciate some help.

Thanks

Dan

 

[DanChestermere]

You know what? I found a solution on this site, which involved right clicking
and selecting "open folder as administrator"... simple solutions for simple
minds!

Thanks to Thomas in another forum

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

First uninstall the current version. Then download the .zip file and extract
the contents to a location of your choice. Go into the contents, right click
the setup file and choose 'run as administrator'. See if this helps.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

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