{"id":49,"date":"2007-04-07T20:52:57","date_gmt":"2007-04-08T02:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d2.degen.net\/?p=96"},"modified":"2007-04-07T20:52:57","modified_gmt":"2007-04-08T02:52:57","slug":"can%e2%80%99t-install-acrobat-8-vista-uac-strikes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t install Acrobat 8; Vista UAC Strikes Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">As many of you know I actually reloaded Vista on my day to day notebook \u00e2\u20ac\u201c thanks to a most inopportune hard drive crash (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/d2.degen.net\/?p=89\">When Disk Failures Attack!<\/a>), and the lack of a bootable XP disk. <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">But I figured, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hey, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll make the most of this and force myself to use Vista.\u00e2\u20ac\u009dArrg!\n<place w:st=\"on\"><\/place>Vista, you continue to curse me!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><a href=\"http:\/\/d2.degen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/adobeinstalluacerror.png\" title=\"Adobe Acrobat 8 Install Error\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/d2.degen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/adobeinstalluacerror.png\" alt=\"Adobe Acrobat 8 Install Error\" \/><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vignette of pain stars, yet again, the loathsome and talent-less Vista User Access Control or UAC. Regular readers of the blog will recall my first bout with the UAC from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/d2.degen.net\/?p=62\">Vista UAC \u00e2\u20ac\u201c this is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153trustworthy computing?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201c And since turning off the UAC is the first order of business on any Vista build I do, you can imagine my surprise when I encountered the following error while attempting to install Adobe Acrobat 8.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Regardless of whether you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re installing the full version or just the reader, if you have turned UAC off, you get this dialog \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Temp folder is on a drive that is full or is inaccessible. Free up space on the drive or verify that you have write permission on the Temp folder.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Now wait a minute\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 If I have turned off UAC, why on earth should I get a permission error \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what I discarded UAC for in the first place! It seams this is part of the new Vista UAC pseudo-privilege elevation strategy. <\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\">It turns out that you must re-enable UAC, reboot and then install Acrobat in order to be successful.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span><br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span><\/span><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\">I found a good source of information about this phenomena at Scott Hanselman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s site, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hanselman.com\/blog\/AdobeAcrobat8OnVistaTheTempFolderIsOnADriveThatIsFullOrIsInaccessibleAndWhatIsLocalLow.aspx\">click here<\/a> for a direct link. Great post, and work arounds, just a damn shame this UAC thing keeps driving me to the brink of insanity and then some.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know I actually reloaded Vista on my day to day notebook \u00e2\u20ac\u201c thanks to a most inopportune hard drive crash (When Disk Failures Attack!), and the lack of a bootable XP disk. &nbsp; But I figured, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hey, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll make the most of this and force myself to use Vista.\u00e2\u20ac\u009dArrg! Vista, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}