Adobe Reader 8 on Vista Business version kills Groove 2007

[TheVarmintHunter]

Has anyone else experienced this?

When MS Groove 2007 is installed on MS Vista Business and Adobe Acrobat 8 is
subsequently installed, the Windows file association is destroyed and the
Groove.exe application will not run. By uninstalling Adobe Reader, Groove
launches without incident. The only way I have found to correct the issue is
to uninstall Acrobat Reader, which subsequently destroys the windows file
association for .pdf - thus making .pdf files unusable.

Was this intentional?

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Acrobat does not support Vista or Office 2007 yet. If it works at all, be
grateful. More information can be found on Adobe's website.

 

[TheVarmintHunter]

Thanks for the info - you are right.

Interestingly, I posed the same question to their forums and got NO reply.

Upon further investigation (meaning buried deep in the Adobe marketing
literature) Adobe fesses up to the fact that they have tested Reader v.8 with
a beta version of Vista and plan on shipping another version which will
provide support for Vista sometime in the future.

Alas...

 

[JoAnn Paules]

I know - I too own Acrobat Pro 8. It works to some degree on Vista but not
fully yet. I'm paitent tho.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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