Acrobat 8.1.3 requires two double clicks to open a file

Our agency has a VB app that uses adobe to pull up files routinely (for many employees I support they use this app to pull up dozens of documents a day).
Use to be that when you want to pull up a PDF file from the VB app you double clicked once and the PDF came right up. Now you double click and it brings adobe to the forefront (if not already started) or it will just sit there in the background (if adobe was already started before), and then you have to go back to the VB application and double click on the document name again before it will pull up in the Adobe program in a second adobe window. Only staff with the 8.1.3 update have this issue, those with 8.1.2 do one double click and the document comes right up.

I would recommend going to the Help>Repair and then repeating with Help>Updates. I am assuming the process is the same on the MAC as the PC.

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Let me start by saying I don't know too much about Server 2008.
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1. Can't open a Word or Excel file by double clicking the icon on the desktop. Error is as follows:
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Word cannot open this document template. (C:\Users\(username)\...\AVWiz14s.dotm)
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Word cannot open the existing file. (Normal)
and then Word stops responding.
Note that I can open these documents normally from the start menu. I have determined this error has something to do with the server because I have tried a bunch of stuff on the internet, including an Excel hotfix, which did nothing.
2. Desktop icons flicker, rearrange themselves, and even disappear completely at times. I do not know what causes this, but I do believe this is a server issue.
3. I get recycle bin errors every time I log in, and every time I try to delete anything:
The Recycle Bin on \\intecserver\Office Employee Files\kneureuter\My Documents\My Videos is corrupted. Do you want to empty the Recycle Bin for this drive?
Sometimes I get that error for 3-4 different directories.
What I've tried:
I tried reinstalling Office, and that made no difference.
I have the drive from the server "Office Employee Files" mapped to network drive Y:. I can open that and go to my account folder on there, navigate to "Desktop" and open the files from there, but not on the physical desktop on my
computer.
These files aren't shortcuts on the desktop, their permanent home is on the desktop.
Just to reiterate, if I moved these files into a folder on the desktop, they will open fine. If I open them from within Excel or Word, they open fine. If I open them from the server drive mapped onto my terminal, they open fine. Just can't
open them by double-clicking the file if it is directly on the desktop. Any ideas?
I logged onto my account from a different computer and double-clicking to open the files worked fine on that computer. Both computers running Windows 7 Pro 64-bit and Office 2010 Pro. So that limits it to this machine and my bosses machine.
Since you can't create a shortcut for something on the desktop, I created a new folder on the desktop and put the files in that folder. From there I created a shortcut and put that on the desktop. That worked!
However, that's just a band-aid. I need to fix this problem sooner than later.
Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!

Hi AxEheaD15,
If the Desktop or the My Documents folder is redirected to a network location, Office applications may exhibit the similar issues .
For details please refer to following link:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2816253/en-us
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Can't double click to open PDF files

Within the past two weeks I'm getting this odd error where I can't open a PDF file by double clicking it. I get an error saying "This action is only valid for products that are already installed"
I have Reader 8.1.2. installed. I CAN open a PDF file when I open up Adobe Reader and then browse and select the file from the File Menu. I just can't double click to open any more. Very annoying.
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the Reader, but I'm getting the same error.
Any help is much appreciated!

Hi AxEheaD15,
If the Desktop or the My Documents folder is redirected to a network location, Office applications may exhibit the similar issues .
For details please refer to following link:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2816253/en-us
Best Regards
Elton Ji
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are trying to better understand customer views on social support experience, so your participation in this
interview project would be greatly appreciated if you have time.
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Okay, I am officially embarrassed. I thought I had changed enough things around to see if I could get this to work. I had the “Double-Click’ in the preferences set to the far right to be “fast,” the same way I have “Tracking”and “Scrolling,” and those two work fine. I decided to move the slider to the left a bit and it now works. So, if anyone else has this problem – here’s the solution!
Cindy

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After installing OpenOffice, my Mac Mini suddenly lost the ability to open desktop folders by double clicking.
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InDesign crashes every single time you double click to open an InDesign file and has done so since replacement of the original version of InDesign introduced in the Creative Cloud launch. Does anyone else have this problem? I'd say it was unique to my system if I hadn't experienced the issue repeatedly on several different systems now. You have to relaunch InDesign which then opens the file from recovery, so it saw the file you tried to launch in the first place. This leads me to believe the problem lies with the file association registry of InDesign inside Windows systems. I find it unbelievable that this problem still exists and remains unreported and that a solution hasn't been implemented by Adobe to rectify the issue.
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I'll give it a go. Don't really like messing with the registry on Windows boxes. Yes you can do it, but it can end up being a case of the operation was a success, but the patient died.
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