Acrobat and Reader Conflicts

I have both Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader installed on my computer. While I have read countless PDF documents using Reader, I am new to Acrobat. I purchased it to create forms for my business.
When I attempt to open Acrobat, the Acrobat icon displays in the upper left corner of the workspace, but expected tools on the toolbar of missing--despite checking the "View" Menu to be sure the appropriate selections have been made for the display. When I checked the "About" (under the "Help" menu), the software informs me that Reader is currently running--NOT Acrobat.
What's up?
Do I need to unisntall Reader?
Is this an uninstalled/re-install problem for Acrobat?
Thank you for your help!

Hi,
Please try making Acrobat as the default program for .pdf files. It should fix the issue for you.

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