>>The most often linked to resolves into a DL of 256 MB whereas most other versions are 80-100 MB. Also small versions have "Borland" and "Pierre" early on exe file start 256 MB version has neither, so paranoid me is concerned.
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>>Has anybody around here an installer for Foxit PDF Reader 9.7.2 he used or trusts ?

>Why don't you upgrade to Win10 which comes with a PDF printer driver?

I have another PDF printer driver for W7 already installed, but actually like the way Foxit hooks printing to give me quick layout across every SW installed. On W10: I have a few VM running with it, but it never "clicked" with me - NT made lots of of OS fiddling from MS-Dos over GemDos, OS/2, Pick, Tops20 and other stuff unnecessary - W2K and XP were nice enhancements with almost no shifting around of tweaking tools.
W7 as 64bit another welcome change, moving to Linux plus one Win64 as Host OS and several VM to work in. As Beast is air gapped, W7 not a danger from Net attackers, but also new Win phoning home less of a problem ;-)

Visual Studio needs to run, sometimes a newer Excel plus Tax software, but other than that no need for specific OS as long as 32bit subsystem still works or VirtualBox gives me one.

I will try if W11 runs on my old beast (one of the smart heating systems powered by i7 4790K, still 80-90% of single core perf of modern machines, no TPM2, but big NVMe plus 32Gig) with the registry hacks to disable TPM check or via Virtualbox, to see if it fits better. Beast will have 1 or 2 HostOS from Seattle, but that is for offspring running games.

>As an answer to your question: Install Chocolatey and follow the description at https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/Fox itReader/9.7.2.29539

Thx Tore! Will check it out!

best regards
thomas