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For what it's worth, a clean, virgin install of Reader 9 on a clean, virgin install of Windows 7 64-bit beta produces...no thumbnails at all. Zero. zilch. Thumbnails and previews generally in Windows 7 are more convenient and better than Vista. But click on a pdf file and you just get 'no preview available'.

Reader also cannot update its own updater, which crashes, and which apparently is a prerequisite to updating Reader itself.

Since Win7 is beta, you can't demand anything of anybody; everybody is off the hook for a while. But it's unfortunate that while there are plenty of good improvements in Win 7, apparently cooperation between Microsoft and Adobe is not one of them.

Fortunately my thumbs on Vista32 (where I have CS3) still work, although even there, with Acrobat 8 pro, they disappeared for a while last year.

It's truly idiotic that in a world where PDF is as universal as any file format; where jpg, png, gif previews unfailingly work; and where so much of the PDF code is publicly available that dozens of free PDF writers are available and Microsoft Office can create PDF -- in such a world, it's ridiculous that Msft doesn't implement its own thumbnail solution. But then, if you don't have Office installed, you can't get previews of Word files either.

Windows 7 mostly rocks, but this part of MSFT's thinking I will NEVER understand. Nor can I understand why Adobe doesn't see that it's in their interest to devote the resources to making this stuff work. Plenty of users bitch about 'reader bloat'. Plenty of users use it only while holding their nose. The easier Adobe makes it to glance at your pdf files and quickly open the one you want, the more people will appreciate the product, and, eventually, the more people will buy the PAY product.