Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

[Dov Isaacs]

(1)     FrameMaker 8 works fine on both Vista 32-bit and Vista 64-bit
assuming that if you are running Acrobat, you are using at least
Acrobat 8.1.

(2)     You should ALWAYS cleanly uninstall Adobe applications. Actually
you should first "deactivate" them and then uninstall them. Failure to
do that will probably cause major issues in terms of activating them
again on your "rebuilt" system.

By the way, if you in fact "rebuilt" your laptop, hopefully you didn't
try to do an "in place" upgrade from XP to Vista. That is an absolute
disaster.

You will likely need to contact Adobe to be able to reactivate your
applications after you install them due to the failure to deactivate
and uninstall them previously.

Good luck!

        - Dov

> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of
> Syed.Hosain at aeris.net
> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 9:00 AM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...
>
> Hi, all.
>
> My laptop disk drive started acting flaky, so I had to put a new drive onto the system. In this
> process, I rebuilt my laptop using Windows Vista rather than Windows XP.
>
> I am now at the stage of re-installing FrameMaker 8 and have some questions (one a bit belated).
>
> 1. I assumed that FM 8 works fine on Vista (both 32-bit and 64-bit). Is this accurate? (A bit belated
> of a question, I suppose, but before I waste any more time and end up re-installing XP, I thought I
> would ask here ... hoping to get a quick response).
>
> 2. I did not cleanly do the UNinstall on my previous drive (either for FrameMaker or Acrobat 9) for
> obviosu reasons. So will re-installing them on my new drive cause any headaches with registering these
> at Adobe? Since the OS has changed?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Z