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I have Adobe Acrobat 5 ME (Middle East edition) installed on my XP Home computer. Twice now the Acrobat Distiller has disappeared from my printers folder. The Acrobat Program and Distiller program work fine.
With the PDF Maker I can still make PDFs from Office, but I work with other applications in which I need to print to the Distiller.

What could make it disappear? I reinstalled the program a few weeks ago, and now the printer is gone again.

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by oz_media

I had that problem with my WIn2K PC but it was fine on Win98.

This article explains how to use a custom install path with Windows XP and also has detailed remova reinstall instructions for Acrobat 5.x on XP.

http://tinyurl.com/q27v

by oz_media

You will need to disable system restore in XP, I think they outline it in the article, the SYS Restore doesn't allow proper installation of the Adobe Post Script drivers.

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And here's the solution. I have been running a trial of Super Utilities. The first time I run a two-week trial of SU 1.53, had some questions, and then decided to try SU 2 before purchasing. The Registry Cleaner function seems to remove the Distiller Printer from my Printers folder as a duplicate. I undid the Registry editing this morning and I can print to the distiller just fine.
Does anyone have experience with the Super Utilities? The memory management program works quite well, although I would like to set it to run every hour. There are many other nice features. The URL of the company is: www.superlogix.net. I would like to hear other peoples comments on this program.

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