Friday, December 10, 2010

Installing Adobe Reader X on Windows 7 - problem with Microsoft Windows Search Filter Host

As you may know, there is new Adobe Reader X which bring important security improvements in this bug infested application.
So I wanted to install it on my Windows 7 Professional. All went well until the following error:

Files in use: Microsoft Windows Search Filter Host


Now, what do you think that a normal user would do? Nothing at all! There is no way to close this process as it is not an Windowed application, nor running in a system tray.
So what is it then? Quick search on Google shows that the process name is SearchFilterHost.exe.


And it is running as SYSTEM. As I am administrator on this host I can try "End process". So I did, but the process simply restarts! 

Conclusion: I cannot install Adobe Reader X on my WIndows 7 in normal mode.
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14 comments:

  1. Tim McClainJanuary 22, 2011 at 5:40 PM

    you just need to be quick with the killing of the process and clicking retry. Worked for me.

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  2. AlexMarch 11, 2011 at 2:31 PM

    It's risky but if you're very quick you can end the process and start it installing again, this seems to stop the process from starting again until installation is complete

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  3. bbellwfuJune 2, 2011 at 1:38 PM

    I had this issue and resolved it by closing MS Outlook.

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  4. John LargerJune 20, 2011 at 7:34 PM

    Run services.msc and stop the service. it will restart when windows restarts

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  5. AyazNovember 22, 2011 at 10:27 PM

    Tim McClain is correct.

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  6. TRNovember 29, 2011 at 5:12 AM

    I am running Windows Vista. Trying to install Adobe Reader X returned the same message as above. But I resolved it by running services and stopping Windows Search.

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  7. LyleFebruary 8, 2012 at 2:53 AM

    John Larger , thank you very much, I opened services.msc and stopped the service called: windows Search, I then successfully uninstalled Adobe reader X.

    I am now going to attempt a fresh reinstall of Adobe reader X.

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  8. waseemMarch 17, 2012 at 8:11 AM

    Stop this service in services.msc

    "ActivIdentity Shared Store Service"

    then perform uninstall.

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  9. SalJuly 17, 2012 at 6:47 AM

    Restart Windows, browse to adobe.com from *Chrome* browser, download and install, don't open any other windows or applications. Worked for me on Windows 7.

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  10. Michael BannerNovember 9, 2012 at 8:33 AM

    Thanks for this blog post. I had the same exact problem. I did the combo of closing Outlook and End Process of host application in Task Manager and then retry of the process. It worked!

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  11. vloggerApril 3, 2013 at 10:06 PM

    thnaks..it works for me...

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