[Reader][Win7] 21208 update breaks Acrobat Reader, won't start, missing dll

If Adobe fixes it so it will work on 7 I will go back to it

Ditto.

From this thread it appears adobe is working on a fix and will post an announcement here. Its possible that they might be able to roll it out through the auto update service that runs independently of their PDF reader. I don’t know but if so then once they have a fix your software might update to a working versions. 
 

in the mean time Sumatra PDF for viewing PDFs is working on our windows 7 machines and is a large functionality improvement thought it does not offer any robust features.  

Yikes, are you running legacy autodesk software like we are? That error you are having is from missing or corrupt MS Visual C++ library. The adobe issue is because they’re latest update is trying to use a dll file from this library that is not present or available for windows 7. This issue you are having does not, on its face, appear related to this issue directly. Its similar and its possible that Adobe is not the only reader editor who updated their software offering without realizing they were making a big mistake. Whats the other editor you are using? In the mean time try Sumatra or Foxit we have those working on our windows 7 machines and find Sumatra to be a HUGE improvement in speed and bug/error reduction from adobe so long as you don’t need to sign PDFs . 

Thank you, We’ve been preventing computers from getting online to avoid the automatic update self destruction. In the mean time the ones that have we’ve pivoted from adobe products and depending on needs we’ve had no issues with compatibility of Sumatra PDF - if anyone needs just a reader without abiliy to sign this one integrates with windows 7 to allow preview in windows explorer and restored PDF function in our legacy software packages while running significantly faster that adobe reader - no more “out of memory” error or window display issues we has with Adobe. Where we need signing ability we have found Foxit reader works with windows 7 without issue and restored functionality in our legacy software.  Foxit is little smoother and faster than adobe reader was and like Sumatra does not experience the “out of memory” errors or display issues that plague adobe reader. Its interface is not as refined as Adobe but that's not a bad tradeoff for the significant functionality improvement. In the end, pushing us into trying Sumatra and Foxit are a huge win for us. The significant speed in opening and flipping through construction plan sets is a massive productivity boost.

Thank you! I’ve been looking for this version download since yesterday and couldn’t find it.

My system works….. for now.

This version cannot edit a PDF.  The update required is not available for Window 7.  I had no issues before February 17th.  Do you have a solution to get the “editibable” version of Acrobat DC for Win 7??

Rolling back did not solve the problem for us or other users as the adobe software re-updates to the broken version and disabling all that through windows services hasn’t been an effective workaround as those options appear to be re-enabled on using the software. So we uninstalled adobe and used their clean up tool and installed Sumatra PDF. During install there is an options button be sure to click that and enable windows preview. If you install without enabling in options you will get the viewer but no preview integrated into windows explorer at which point you can run the install again and check the box to make that part work. 
 

i should note you don’t have to uninstall the broke adobe for Sumatra to work just make it the primary application for opening PDF. This way maybe adobe can auto-update back to working later. 
 

all the best. 

The pdf viewer in Firefox will read pdf files, but often will not print them correctly.  There is a page-fit problem.  I went round-and-round with Mozilla a couple of years ago, but they have never fixed it to work properly.