RE: QUERY: Frame 5.5 and Windows 2000?

["Dov Isaacs" <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

The "update" option is normally only available if the version of the
driver existing on your system is an earlier version than the version
in the installer. There were some exceptions to that and that is fixed
in the next driver installer that will be on Adobe's web site soon
(it shipped as part of Acrobat 5).

The "InstallShield" installers are the source of the time delays to
install. They go looking at the entire environment that your system has
(why, I don't know). Thus, if you are on-line and have a dozen drives
mapped, it seems to take forever (even of a dual-procesor 933mhz Pentium III
with a gigabyte of memory).

        - Dov


At 4/26/2001 08:06 AM, Thomas Michanek wrote:
>> From: Dov Isaacs
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 8:15 PM
>> 
>> (3) If you want to be able to print with either separations and/or
>> produce PDF, you need Windows 2000 Service Pack 1 installed. As an
>> alternative, you may download and run the Adobe Windows PostScript
>> Universal Driver Installer and specify the "update" driver option.
>
>I have seen several references to this "update" option in the
>driver installer. However, when I run the Universal Installer 1.0.2
>on a Windows 2000 or NT system, I can see no option of only updating
>the driver. I must always install a new printer instance.
>If I do install a new "dummy" printer, then all other existing
>printer instances seem to be updated to a newer version. I must
>then delete the newly added printer.
>
>Also, the Universal Installer 1.0.2 takes an enormous amount of
>time to start, even on fairly modern and powerful systems, e.g.
>Pentium II/III 300-500 MHz with 256-512 MB memory. We're talking
>several minutes before the InstallShield is started!
>
>Any clues?


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