I’ve been a Windows user for a long time now. At first, it was a cost issue. Mac’s are so much more expensive than PCs (you gotta pay for all that marketing 
). Then it just became habit. I prefer the Window’s interface over Apple’s. I like the right-click, ALT keying through menus, and having an application background. I used a Mac for a year at a part time job and I practically got carpel tunnel syndrome from clicking everything. Plus that thing would crash all the time.
Anyway, I recently upgraded my PC from 4GB to 8GB of RAM. What I didn’t realize when I did this was that I would need to run a 64 bit OS in order to take advantage of the extra 4GB of RAM. I was running XP Pro and was holding off on the Vista upgrade because I heard of so many issues. This seemed like a good excuse to make the leap.
I’ll admit it, upgrading was a little painful. I had to do a clean install going from 32 bit to 64 bit. So, I had to reinstall all my software, reload all my application settings, and update a few drivers. All in all it took me about a day to get back to where I was before the switch to Vista. Vista Ultimate 64 is pretty rad. It’s really quick and intuitive. All my applications run much faster and smoother now.
Here’s the really exciting news for Windows users. When Photoshop CS4 comes out, it will be 64 bit compliant on Windows, but not Mac. This means, we’ll be able to run Photoshop roughly 10x faster than any Mac. When CS5 comes out, then a Mac 64 bit version will be available. Read this article on Adobe’s blog for more info.
One issue I came across was getting Acrobat 8 to work properly. It reads and saves PDFs just fine. It just wouldn’t make PDFs in all applications via the Acrobat PDF Printer. When the PDF Printer wouldn’t work, it would queue up the document to print, but it wouldn’t give you a prompt where to save and name the new PDF. I would then have to cancel the print and then log off and log back on to clear the printer que.
After much googling, I finally found this article on Adobe Forums and now it’s at least printing PDFs without hanging. It does drop every PDF in My Documents and you don’t have the option to name it. Just a little annoying :|.
I didn’t try renaming the DLL thing, but at the end of the article, H Frenk’s suggestion did the trick:
Control Panel >> Printers >> Adobe PDF >> Ports >> select XPSPort
Control Panel >> Printers >> Adobe PDF >> Properties (Right-click) >> Advanced >> Printer Defaults >> Adobe PDF Conversion Settings (3rd tab) >> Adobe PDF Folder >> set to XPSPort
Hopefully Adobe or Microsoft will come out with an update soon to fix this bug.
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