1. Download the Adobe Acrobat Reader Setup files. You can either go to http://get.adobe.com/de/reader/ or use FTP to download the MSI / setup.exe from ftp.adobe.com – i prefer the latter. ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/
   When using the FTP site, you can usually grab the MSI directly. If so, steps 2 to 5 are not necessary and you can proceed with step 6.
   Save it to the Desktop
2. Choose Start > Run.
3. In the Open text box type: "%UserProfile%\Desktop\AdbeRdr9x_en_US.exe" -nos_ne
   change the filename to meet the name of the downloaded setup.exe ..
4. Click OK to start decompressing the file.
5. When the Adobe Reader 9.x Setup screen clears, browse to the following location
   %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Reader 9.0\Setup Files
6. Create a new Directory called AdminInstallPoint
7. Open a CMD
8. Type: MSIExec /A "<pathToMsi>\9.3\AdbeRdr930_de_DE.msi" TARGETDIR=c:\temp\AdminInstallPoint
   The Windows Installer will create an Administrative Installation of the Adobe Acrobat Reader. This Admin Install can then be patched with MSP (Microsoft Installer Patches)..
9. Download the latest patches from ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/
10. To apply these Patches, type: msiexec /a AcroRead.msi /p AdbeRdrUpd932_all_incr.msp;AdbeRdrUpd933_all_incr.msp

Links

Adobe FTP Host

Patching Adobe Reader

Adobe Forum Post about applying 9.1.2 to Admin Install Point

About the issue respectively about the fix

• The fix should only be applied to 64-bit versions of Windows that have Adobe Reader installed. Don’t apply the fix to 32-bit versions of Windows. If you’re not sure what you have use Start -> Control Panel -> System and Security -> System and look at the reported system type.
• You will need Administrator access to apply the fix.
• You may need to re-apply the fix if you update/re-install Adobe Reader, unless Adobe get around to fixing their installer.
• What the fix does is explicitly documented in Microsoft’s guidelines on Registering preview handlers so it shouldn’t cause any problems.

Installing the fix

Create a file called AdobePreviewHandler_x64Fix.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Classes\CLSID\{DC6EFB56-9CFA-464D-8880-44885D7DC193}]
"AppID"="{534A1E02-D58F-44f0-B58B-36CBED287C7C}"

Copy/Paste the above lines into the .reg file and double-click it afterwards. This will correct the necessary values in the Windows registry. Please consider, a reboot is required for the changes to take effect.

Apply the fix using Regedit

• Open RegEdit.exe
• Navigate to:
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Classes\CLSID\{DC6EFB56-9CFA-464D-8880-44885D7DC193}
• There should be an existing AppID value, incorrectly set to {6d2b5079-2f0b-48dd-ab7f-97cec514d30b}
• Change the AppID value to {534A1E02-D58F-44f0-B58B-36CBED287C7C}