Acrobat X under Windows 7

Hello
Does anyone know if there is any problem when running Adobe Acrobat X under Windows 7?
‘Acrobat Distiller X’ closes automatically, in less than a second, after being just opened.
Thank you very much in advance for your help

You have not indicated the version of AA X. If it is X.0, then do an update 'til you are at the latest version. You also did not indicate if you had a 32 or 64 bit system. If the latter, then you need X.1 to run appropriately.

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