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Preview handlers are lightweight components which let you view various file types within programs like Windows Explorer (in Windows Vista and Windows 7) and Outlook 2007.  Adobe Reader comes with Adobe’s PDF preview handler but the installer has a mistake which means the preview handler does not work on 64-bit systems.  It turns out the problem can be fixed via a simple registry change. About the issue respectively about the fix The fix should only be applied to 64-bit versions of Windows that have Adobe Reader installed.  Don’t apply the fix to 32-bit versions of Windows. If you’re not sure what you have use  Start -> Control Panel -> System and Security -> System  and look at the reported  system type . You will need  Administrator  access to apply the fix. You may need to re-apply the fix if you update/re-install Adobe Reader, unless Adobe get around to fixing their installer. What the fix does is explicitly documented in Microsoft’s guidelines on  Registering pre

This post will show you how to create an Adobe Acrobat Reader MSI Package to deploy using a software deployment tool like LANDesk, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, Altiris or a similar tool.  First we create an administrative install, then we patch the administrative install with the MSPs (patches).. Download the Adobe Acrobat Reader Setup files. You can either go to http://get.adobe.com/de/reader/  or use FTP to download the MSI / setup.exe from ftp.adobe.com  – i prefer the latter.  ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/ When using the FTP site, you can usually grab the MSI directly. If so, steps 2 to 5 are not necessary and you can proceed with step 6. Save it to the Desktop Choose Start > Run. In the Open text box type:  "%UserProfile%\Desktop\AdbeRdr9x_en_US.exe" -nos_ne  change the filename to meet the name of the downloaded setup.exe .. Click OK to start decompressing the file. When the Adobe Reader 9.x Setup screen clears, browse to the foll