Acrobat XI 11.0.0.6 Pro and Reader XI hang

I recently installed the latest versions of Acrobat and Reader and have experienced several problems.
Converting web pages to .PDF's seems to freeze the application.
I get the error "Cannot connect to a DDE server"
Rebooting fixes the issue temporarily, but the issue alwasy arises again.
I tried several fixes including:
Disabling protected mode in internet explorer
Disabling enhanced security in Acrobat
Modifying registry keys from A10-->A11 (to indicate the correct version of Acrobat)
Any ideas what would cause the application to continually hang?

Hi,
If rebooting fixes the issue temporarily then I think some process is conflicting with Acrobat or may be registry keys are not set properly. You also mentioned that you modified keys from A10 --> A11.
1. Try removing Acrobat using Acrobat cleaner tool. This is clean everything.
     http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/acrobatcleaner.html
2. Reinstall Acrobat 11.0.6.
3. Also, try disabling protected mode in Acrobat by Edit->Preferences -> Security (Enhanced) -> set “Protected View” to OFF
Regards,
Anoop

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