Currently, most Adobe products work fine on Windows 7. Adobe Creative Suite 4 and Adobe Creative Suite 3 are all confirmed by Adobe to work well with Microsoft Windows 7. Older versions should also work fine, however, even though they were released several years before Windows 7 became available. On these older versions, though, we have had reports of some minor installation problems. Even on newer Adobe products, Win 7 there seem still to be some small issues that affect performance or cause crashes. On Win7 64-bit for example, many users have reported intermittent problems opening pdf-documents through their web browser.
The Adobe Win7 site is dedicated to reporting problems with, and sharing solutions for, Adobe products on Win 7. Please note that many Adobe products, Download Windows 7 such as Adobe Photoshop, requires the use of the Graphics Processor Unit (GPU) on your video card. As of today, most video card manufacturers have updated their video card drivers to Win7. However, if you upgrade to Win7 and notice that the GPU support has been disabled, you will need to contact your video card manufacturer to update your video card driver. Such discussions fall outside the scope of the Adobe Win7 site, all though if you post questions to this regard in comments, we will do out very best to assist.
There are several reports that Adobe Reader 9.1 on Win 7 crashes Firefox and IE (Internet Explorer) when you try to open a PDF through the browser. The browser will download the document but just as it is about to open, an error message is displayed and the browser closes down. As with many other Adobe Reader / web browser problems, it seems very difficult to track down the reason for this problem. The only universal solution seems to be to uncheck the “Display PDF in browser” option in Adobe Reader. This will mean that any PDF will open outside your browser and in your PDF reader directly. You may be asked if you want to “save” or”open”the PDF, Buy Windows 7 in which case the latter option will open the PDF directly.
A few people have contacted us to say that when they attempt to open a PDF with Adobe Reader 9.3 on Win7 by double clicking it, Adobe will not open and Win 7 will hang (the explorer process under the task manager will show a high activity). If you experience this, try to right click the PDF file and select”open with”and then select Adobe Reader 9.3. If this works, something is most likely wrong with your file association and Win 7 is trying to open the PDF in another program, Microsoft Windows 7 a previous (incorrectly removed or updated) version of Adobe Reader or similar.
Some users have reported that when downloading Adobe Reader 9.3, all the desktop icons are changed to PDFs and Win 7 will try to open them as PDFs. When Adobe Reader is unistalled the icons revert to normal. We have been unable to establish why and under what circumstances this occur, Windows 7 but the best fix seems to be to repair the file association with ex File Association Fixes for Win 7 which can be downloaded here. However, if you have experienced the above problem, please post as much information as possible as comments below, so we can better identify the cause of this problem. Quite often the problem is related to hacked versions of Illustrator. Obviously we are unable to help you with this. However, if you have a genuine Illustrator and experience this problem, post the Event ID and Source number from the above log as a comment and we will try to assist.