Adobe Reader Fails To Upgrade/Install
Published March 30, 2009Yesterday I was offered an update to Adobe Reader (the latest version for Windows Vista is version 9.1) on my company’s laptop.
I accepted the update but it failed. It was late and a failed update to Adobe Reader was the least of my worries at the time.
Today, when I tried to use Adobe Reader, I noticed it had been uninstalled.
It’s not nice having to download and install something like Adobe Reader when I need to open a document, but the worst came when I tried to install it.
Adobe Reader requires elevated privileges to install but, due to the way the installer works, being a local administrator (I running Vista x64 Enterprise joined to a corporate domain) is not enough to install Adobe Reader on C:\Program Files (x86), because it was still failing.
I had already created C:\Program Files (Utils), to install the Windows Sysinternals tools (in particular, Process Explorer) and did the same for Adobe Reader.
Do you know what was the first name I thought of for this folder? C:\Program Files (Bad)
Just blame it on Vista.
Sysinternals Live
Published May 31, 2008A colleague of mine showed me this and looked around for some information about it. Here it is:
Sysinternals Live: We're excited to announce the beta of Sysinternals Live, a service that enables you to execute Sysinternals tools directly from the Web without hunting for and manually downloading them. Simply enter a tool's Sysinternals Live path into Windows Explorer or a command prompt as \\live.sysinternals.com\tools\<toolname> or view the entire Sysinternals Live tools directory in a browser at http://live.sysinternals.com.
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