Comments on: Windows 7 Now Available: What You Need to Know.

By: Bob Levine

Bob Levine — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:20:30 +0000

The CMD shell only accepts DOS commands. You can’t really navigate like you do in Windows, you just type the command line in.

You’ll see a c:\ prompt at which time you can just type “cd\Program Files (x86)\Common\Adobe\Shell” without the quotes.

Hope that helps.

By: Dan Griebel

Dan Griebel — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:47:59 +0000

@Bob Levine, or @Ahmed, can you guys please explain these instructions? I’ve been searching for days to solve this problem, and have found this answer, but don’t understand.

I get opening the comand shell, how do i navigate to the correct place? when i type “register64biticons.bat” in cmd, nothing happens…. this seems easy, but i’m just missing a step. help please! Thanks.

By: Ahmad

Ahmad — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:42:55 +0000

@ Bob Levine

thanks alot, it works like a charm

By: Bob Levine

Bob Levine — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:07:07 +0000

@Ahmad: These instruction are for Vista 64 but should work with CS3 on Win 7 64 bit:

Open a command shell with Administrator Privileges by right clicking the cmd.exe application and choosing to Run As Administrator.
Navigate to the Program Files (x86)\Common\Adobe\Shell folder. Type the name of the .bat file, ” Register64BitIcons.bat” (without quotations) and press Enter

That said, you may have something else going on since this shouldn’t be an issue on Win 7 32 bit.

By: Ahmad

Ahmad — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:34:33 +0000

I need help guys, i just installed windows 7 32bit on my laptop and windows 7 64 bit on my PC and both i installed on both of them indesign CS3, but on both of them the indd files icon doesn’t appear but when i click on any indd file it opens normally with indesign cs3 but i need to the indd files to have its normal ic…on like on any other operating systm but on windows 7 32bit and 64bit i have the icon of open with assigned to all the indd files and i tryed to use windows7 manager to change the icon, it didn’t work

By: David Harrison

David Harrison — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:11:32 +0000

@Bob: right, I finally found out what the problem was. When I migrated, it was a clean install on the system drive, but I left the RAID data drives unchanged — not something I want to rebuild unless strictly necessary!

Despite the fact that my username was the same under XP and Win7, and that both were members of the Administrators group (yeah, bad security, I know!), it decided to turn all files owned by my XP incarnation over to a ‘ghost’ user with a long codename. I guess that’s Win7’s way of porting over old users on a clean install, when you don’t maintain user credentials etc on a network server. I had to change ownership and editing rights across all my data disks, at which point Indesign started playing ball again. At least ownership and rights changes on folders/files/disks are pretty easy in Win7.

Strange, but true.

By: Bob Levine

Bob Levine — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:01:33 +0000

Raphael, thanks for noting your experience, but it is atypical and while it certainly takes longer to do a clean install followed by reinstall of applications, it starts you off with a pristine configurations.

I’m sticking with my advice. A clean install is an investment in time that you won’t be wasting troubleshooting down the road only to find that you should have done the clean install to begin with.

By: Raphael Freeman

Raphael Freeman — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:44:17 +0000

A few things.

I know EVERYONE is insisting that a clean install MUST be better, but I have to tell you that I did an “in place” upgrade from Vista to Win7 and then after using it for a few days (oh and this is on build 7100) I did a clean install.

So the upgrade took 2 hours and 20 minutes. Quite a long time, but after that EVERYTHING just worked. Seriously EVERYTHING.

The clean install took less than 20 minutes, but then I had to reinstall all my apps which took much longer than 2 hours.

I noticed no speed difference, so I would actually recommend the upgrade in place.

The best thing about Win 7 is that we finally upgraded our graphic designer from her 2-yr-old Mac that was dying (hardware) to a much faster and cheaper PC laptop that synchronises seamlessly on our network so that she can work from home and have all her files properly synced.

By: Bob Levine

Bob Levine — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:18:15 +0000

Once again David, I’m not seeing anything like that here. Sounds like you’ve got some system issues there.

By: David Harrison

David Harrison — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:13:08 +0000

Here’s another piece of fun: files that I can’t save because they’re owned by the Administrator (or actually some codename that I think represents my old XP user account), even though I’ve never opened these files until now in Win7. A quick copy to a new file, delete the old one, then rename, does the trick. But it’s a big irritant.