Adobe acrobat 5.0 on windows 7 won't open pdf's

I just started getting a mesage that says There is a problem with Adobe Acrobat/reader. If it is running, please exit and try again.(6.6) I have Adobe reader 11 and acrobat 5.0, using windows 7. I've been trying to resolve this for days. Please help, thank you.

It may make a difference if you are using a 64-bit system. AA5 can be installed on Win7, 32-bit (never tried with 64-bit, but did that with AA7). Acrobat and Distiller both work, but AcroTray and the Adobe PDF printer (or Acrobat Distiller printer for AA5) fail to install or load. There are work arounds, but not real convenient. Adobe does not support the AA5 use on Win7 as mentioned. It may be that your problem of opening the PDFs is not AA5, but that the version of the PDFs is a lot newer than AA5 and it is a compatibility issue, not a Win7 issue.
For Win7 or Win8, it is strongly recommended you buy AA XI. You cannot upgrade since AA5 is not a qualifying product for the XI upgrade.

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