Due to HD failure I switched to a new Lenovo H405 box and used backups to load everything. Up to trying to load Adove Acrobat 8 Standard (purchased from Adobe in late January 2008), that is. Two errors: A prompt came up saying that [C:\ProgramFiles(x86)\Adobe\Abrobat8.0\AcrobatXtras\AdobePDF\I386] was "missing" along with a browse that detected only one possible (an installed-at-factory Realtek which didn't load). Only way out was to Cancel this one. Rest of Acrobat 8 installed fine. However, at end, all visible EXE files changed their Logos to show Adobe Acrobat and NONE WOULD WORK! Whatever happened made all EXE files try to be loaded as Acrobat, which only showed a warning prompt about PDF. The only resolution immediate was to use Control Panel and UNINSTALL Acrobat 8. Once that was done all EXEs worked normally. I would like to use this purchased-from-Adove Acrobat 8 that worked fine on an XP and Vista machine before. So far I've tried writing to Adobe and Lenovo but no answers. The available Windows 7 tools don't seem to answer my problems. Trying Acrobat X TRIAL results in the same problem. Help, please.

I don't know what it could have done to associate EXE files with Acrobat, but it sounds like a job for System Restore for sure to get back to normal! Click Start, then enter System Restore in the search box. -Noel

Sounds similar to this: http://blog.jtbworld.com/2007/03/have-you-lost-your-exe-file-extension.html And this: When you run an .exe file on a Windows Vista-based or Windows 7-based computer, the file may start a different program http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950505 Basically, now that you have it working again, export the following keys using Regedit: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.exe Then before you try installing Acrobat again, open an elevated command prompt. If the Acrobat install breaks the EXE file association again, double-click those exported .REG files to import them and fix the file association. If that doesn't allow you to import them because the EXE association is broken, go to that command prompt you left open and try reg import filename.reg to import them.