Installing Adobe Reader in the 32 bit part of 64 bit win7
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From: T.Wahl on 17 Jun 2010 15:21 I am running 64 bit Win7. Adobe Reader is automatically installing in C:/Programfiles (x86). (64 bit, I think) I would like to install the program in C:/Programfiles (32bit part, I presume). The reason is that I want Adobe Reader to show PDF documents as a thumbnail in Explorer instead of the anonymous PDF icon. As you may know,there is no 64 bit driver for Adobe Reader, only a "Win7 driver" I am using Win7 32 bit at work and PDF files are shown as thumbnails (showing the first page of the document) Is there any way of forcing a program (Adobe Reader) to be installed as a "32 bit program" in C:/Programfiles? Best regards Trond W
From: Jerry on 17 Jun 2010 16:31 A 32-bit program in Win7 64-bit, by default, installs in \Program Files (x86) and a 64-bit program install in \Program Files As there is only a 32-bit verion of Adobe Reader presently available it is installing in the correct location. "T.Wahl" <twahl(a)getmail.no> wrote in message news:OK$U%23IlDLHA.4636(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >I am running 64 bit Win7. > Adobe Reader is automatically installing in C:/Programfiles (x86). (64 > bit, I think) > I would like to install the program in C:/Programfiles (32bit part, I > presume). > The reason is that I want Adobe Reader to show PDF documents as a > thumbnail in Explorer instead of the anonymous PDF icon. > As you may know,there is no 64 bit driver for Adobe Reader, only a "Win7 > driver" > I am using Win7 32 bit at work and PDF files are shown as thumbnails > (showing the first page of the document) > > Is there any way of forcing a program (Adobe Reader) to be installed as a > "32 bit program" in C:/Programfiles? > > Best regards > Trond W
From: Jeff Zeitlin on 18 Jun 2010 08:26 On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:21:02 +0200, "T.Wahl" <twahl(a)getmail.no> wrote: >I am running 64 bit Win7. >Adobe Reader is automatically installing in C:/Programfiles (x86). (64 bit, >I think) >I would like to install the program in C:/Programfiles (32bit part, I >presume). >The reason is that I want Adobe Reader to show PDF documents as a thumbnail >in Explorer instead of the anonymous PDF icon. >As you may know,there is no 64 bit driver for Adobe Reader, only a "Win7 >driver" >I am using Win7 32 bit at work and PDF files are shown as thumbnails >(showing the first page of the document) > >Is there any way of forcing a program (Adobe Reader) to be installed as a >"32 bit program" in C:/Programfiles? You've got it backwards - When running Win7/64-bit, 32-bit programs get installed into the Program Files (x86) folder; Program Files is for 64-bit programs. Adober Reader is being installed correctly for your system.
From: Bobby Johnson on 18 Jun 2010 09:01 See Fixes for 64-bit Adobe Reader preview handler and thumbnails @ http://www.pretentiousname.com/adobe_pdf_x64_fix/index.html#downl On 2010-06-17 15:21, T.Wahl wrote: > I am running 64 bit Win7. > Adobe Reader is automatically installing in C:/Programfiles (x86). (64 > bit, I think) > I would like to install the program in C:/Programfiles (32bit part, I > presume). > The reason is that I want Adobe Reader to show PDF documents as a > thumbnail in Explorer instead of the anonymous PDF icon. > As you may know,there is no 64 bit driver for Adobe Reader, only a "Win7 > driver" > I am using Win7 32 bit at work and PDF files are shown as thumbnails > (showing the first page of the document) > > Is there any way of forcing a program (Adobe Reader) to be installed as > a "32 bit program" in C:/Programfiles? > > Best regards > Trond W
From: R. C. White on 18 Jun 2010 10:23
Hi, Trond. As Jeff said, you've got it backwards. Actually, in my opinion, it is Microsoft who "got it backwards"! :>( When 64-bit Windows XP arrived - about 5 years ago - I installed it on my new 64-bit CPU/mobo. I saw this NEW "Program Files (x86)" folder. Like you, I assumed that, since this folder did not exist in my 32-bit WinXP, then it MUST be for 64-bit apps. All my apps at that time were 32-bit, of course, so I forced them all into the original Program Files folder. It took several months for me to learn that I was 180 degrees out of sync! :>( I was multi-booting WinXP, Win2K and Win98 before WinXP X64, and installing each app multiple times into a single Program Files folder on a "neutral" drive (one with no OS on it), letting each setup file write platform-specific information into each Registry, but saving disk space by having them all use the single copy of the .exe, .dll etc. files. This worked well - until X64. Before I learned how to use that x86 folder, I had hopelessly tangled multiple installations of Excel (for example) in E:\Program Files. WinXP Pro correctly recognized it as a 32-bit app, but WinXP X64 thought it was a 64-bit app. I'm not a techie, but my understanding is that the problem is not just with the .exe file itself, but with the many .dll and other support files that need to be in the proper folder so that the 64-bit OS can find them and match them up. Since learning that "x86" refers to the Intel x86 family of 32-bit CPUs (8086, 80286, etc.), I've accepted Microsoft's backwards naming. And since disk space is much cheaper now, I no longer try to share app installations between Windows versions. All 32-bit apps go into PF86 (my own abbreviation) and all 64-bit apps into PF. But I still think that if MS had created a new Program Files (x64), rather than what they did, it would have been a lot less confusing for us users. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX rc(a)grandecom.net Microsoft Windows MVP Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64) "T.Wahl" <twahl(a)getmail.no> wrote in message news:OK$U#IlDLHA.4636(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > I am running 64 bit Win7. > Adobe Reader is automatically installing in C:/Programfiles (x86). (64 > bit, I think) > I would like to install the program in C:/Programfiles (32bit part, I > presume). > The reason is that I want Adobe Reader to show PDF documents as a > thumbnail in Explorer instead of the anonymous PDF icon. > As you may know,there is no 64 bit driver for Adobe Reader, only a "Win7 > driver" > I am using Win7 32 bit at work and PDF files are shown as thumbnails > (showing the first page of the document) > > Is there any way of forcing a program (Adobe Reader) to be installed as a > "32 bit program" in C:/Programfiles? > > Best regards > Trond W |